Less Money Quotes

#1. I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more?

Tom Hanks

#2. Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.

Maggie Gallagher

#3. Like it or not, to reach middle age with less money or less prestige than our father had is somewhat to lose face. Stupid of course, when put like that, but who is prepared to argue that we are not stupid in several important ways?

Robertson Davies

#4. Whoever stole it is spending less money than my wife.

Ilie Nastase

#5. If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that.

Michele Bachmann

#6. Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.

Ethan Coen

#7. The better the script, the less money there is. That's just the economics of the studio system.

Peter Hedges

#8. When we're talking about feminism, I get sort of lost in the argument. Because as a woman of color, I don't know where I belong in this argument. Where do I say, 'I would be happy to have less money'? How do you fight for your rights when I'm super-grateful to be here at all?

Margaret Cho

#9. I do believe that men can be emasculated by successful women. I don't think I'm emasculating. But I have seen the dynamic with men who either don't make money or make less money. It's just not good for them.

Teri Hatcher

#10. All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.

Chris O'Dowd

#11. We must think of innovation as doing a lot more for a lot less (money) for a lot more (people).

Vijay Govindarajan

#12. The health care is going to be less money, and we're going to have much better health care.

Donald Trump

#13. The truth is, that what women have to do is not work for less money. They have to walk away.

Amy Pascal

#14. My sister is a public school teacher. She makes far far less money than I do, and gets almost no public attention for her work. Yet I believe what she does is infinitely more important and more difficult than what I do.

Anna Quindlen

#15. I could easily exist on less money, but I like the way I live now.

Christina Ricci

#16. Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the death tax, that means less money is being invested in new jobs and capital expansion.

Todd Tiahrt

#17. If people use Chrome, we make less money on our service and that's fine by us because that is fair competition. I wouldn't put Google on a pedestal for competition, but they aren't telling users not to use OpenDNS.

David Ulevitch

#18. I've often said that far more sensible than a 'make poverty history' campaign would be a 'make wealth history' campaign. It is, after all, the wealthy people who do all the damage. The less money you earn, the fewer resources you use up.

Tom Hodgkinson

#19. We get a successful television series or something, and next season they give you less time and less money, which is something I've never really understood. That doesn't happen with Game of Thrones.

Charles Dance

#20. Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.

Jennifer Weiner

#21. My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money.

Shia Labeouf

#22. Money ... buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors ... The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is.

Fran Lebowitz

#23. The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same capitalists produce. It's a contradiction.

Richard D. Wolff

#24. Since loans are getting more expensive and there's less money available, we're seeing a commensurate decline in growth. Higher costs and lower growth, in turn, translate into lower profits. Figuratively speaking, in the future, we won't be able to run as far or jump as high as we used to.

Paul Achleitner

#25. Indies are always an extra challenge. The time is shorter because you have less money to spend and fewer days to shoot.

Salli Richardson

#26. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

George Orwell

#27. If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.

Peter Sotos

#28. Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.

Joey Lauren Adams

#29. A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking.

Andrzej Wajda

#30. I'd rather make less money and live in a just world.

David Clennon

#31. Less money for public media means less access to the arts.

Nellie McKay

#32. Budget cuts if you're not rich, tax cuts if you are. Less money for those who don't have any and more to those who do. That's how President Fredo says we're going to get out of the giant deficit hole he's dug. You can't put it any more simply. Rich people richer. Poor people poorer.

Will Durst

#33. I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.

Adrien Brody

#34. You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who's younger than you, who weighs less than you.

Gloria Steinem

#35. You know, civil rights is great and everything, but a lot of people don't realize that plumbers in the South make less money than when they used to install separate drinking fountains.

Andy Kindler

#36. When corporations get special handouts from the government, subsidies and tax breaks, it costs you. It means you have to pay more in taxes to make up for these hidden expenses, and government has less money for good schools and roads, Medicare and national defense and everything else you need.

Robert Reich

#37. I don't think you need $35 million bucks to make a movie. I think what people should do is make a lot more movies for a lot less money. You can really do it.

William Monahan

#38. Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying.

Rebecca Goldstein

#39. I was never interested in money. I always looked down on it. But now that I have less money, I see that without money, you cannot do much. Everything in the end is about money.

Farah Diba

#40. What I support is a whole different approach with regard to drug use, and that is spending less money on the prosecution and incarceration side and more money on prevention and education, which I know works.

Rob Portman

#41. TV show is always challenging. It's challenging when you have all of the time and money in the world, and it's more challenging when you have less money.

Joseph McGinty Nichol

#42. In many ways, education is a lousy business. Teachers are not normal economic actors; almost all of them work for less money than they might fetch in some other industry, given their skills and advanced degrees.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#43. I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant. They had just been fired by their employer who turned around and hired illegal aliens for a lot less money. That had a big impact on me.

Richard Lamm

#44. Few years ago [Donald] Trump was being roasted by Comedy Central. They always have rules about things that you can't joke about. Donald Trump's rule at that time, the only thing that you couldn't joke about was a suggestion that he has less money that he claimed to.

Ben Domenech

#45. Debt deflation is when there's less money that people have to spend out of their paychecks on goods and services, because they're paying the FIRE sector. Oil going down is a function of the supply and demand of oil in the market. It's a separate phenomenon.

Michael Hudson

#46. Is there a market for somebody selling a credit card that helps people pay down their balances? I think the question is yes. But it would have to be sold by a bank that's really willing to invest in being a trusted partner with its consumers, because they will make less money on each consumer.

Richard Thaler

#47. The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.

George Orwell

#48. Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.

Gregory Bateson

#49. I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets, my opponent has never served on any a budget committee where there was less money to spend than the year before.

Matt Gonzalez

#50. I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.

Callie Khouri

#51. You tighten your belt when you eat less. Your belt around your belly can get smaller when you buy less food. When you eat less... you spend less money. Tighten your belt = Spend less money.

Elliot Carruthers

#52. The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.

Ban Ki-moon

#53. The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.

Ron Chernow

#54. In the family pattern, men support boys and women support girls, and because women have far fewer financial resources, there is less money to invest in girls.

Ann Cotton

#55. If rather than setting the minimum balance as the lowest possible amount, so we keep people in debt for as long as possible, we raise the minimum payment and encourage people to pay off their credit cards, we're going to make less money, but we're going to have costumers that are more solvent.

Richard Thaler

#56. Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.

Val Kilmer

#57. As you have to pay more interest and amortization on what you owe, you're left with less and less money to buy goods and services - unless you borrow even more and go further into debt.

Michael Hudson

#58. Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

Maggie Gallagher

#59. I don't listen to the refs. I don't listen to anyone who makes less money than I do.

Charles Barkley

#60. My fat never made me less money.

Dolly Parton

#61. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to prove that cutting incomes to the poorest families will have a negative impact on kids. That is less money for the basics like food, health and clothes.

Metiria Turei

#62. The less money you owe, the less income you'll need and the less you'll have to save for tomorrow.

Suze Orman

#63. Under capitalism the more money you have, the easier it is to make money, and the less money you have, the harder.Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. The affluence of the rich supposes the indigence of the many.

Adam Smith

#64. Yet for quixotic reasons
namely, that I enjoyed writing obits
I had decided to scale back on articles about city life in order to write exclusively about the city's dead. For even less money. It was a strange and inexplicable career move.

Avi Steinberg

#65. One of the compensations for wearing a uniform and earning less money than an equally talented man can make in the real world is the off chance of being killed.

Tom Clancy

#66. There's so little difference between television and features as far as you make the film. I mean, you have less money and it's a little quicker, but the concept is all on television.

Joe Dante

#67. Financial Security is not enough money to buy toys. That is to learn to live with less money than you earn. So, you can help other individuals or investors. You are not a winner until done it

Dave Ramsey

#68. Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

Samuel Pepys

#69. My target is to make the players as rich as possible within the financial constraints of the club. My target is not to give them less money. I'm happy to make them rich.

Arsene Wenger

#70. How is it having more control if you have less money in your pocket as Martin Lewis Moneysaving expert says?

Sadiq Khan

#71. Black women were armed, black women were dangerous and the less money they had the deadlier the weapon they chose.

Toni Morrison

#72. When a private citizen is robbed, a worthy man is deprived of the fruits of his industry and thrift; when the government is robbed, the worst that happens is that certain rogues and loafers have less money to play with than they had before.

H.L. Mencken

#73. Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for less money, and without any health insurance costs.

Douglas Rushkoff

#74. I pay people very, very well - probably more than I have to. But that costs me less money in the long run because I'm not having to constantly train somebody. I pay them enough that they don't go seeking a higher scale at the next restaurant.

Paula Deen

#75. If the country's poorer, it's got less money.

George Osborne

#76. I made a pact with myself that I'd rather have less money than be embarrassed.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#77. It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money.

Tony Blair

#78. The thinner a newspaper or magazine is - due to reduced revenue from advertising dollars - the less editorial content because of the standard ad-to-editorial ratio, and the less money there is to support investigative journalism.

Lynda Resnick

#79. Less money sometimes allows you to be more creative.

Brett Ratner

#80. I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.

Dean Cain

#81. Sometimes, I think having less money can lead to more artistry.

Sven Nykvist

#82. The less money and time you have, the more you haveto plan ahead and be careful about your coverage. It's like a gas:it expands or contracts depending on the size of the container.

John Sayles

#83. The reality is the Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Lean startups waste less money, because they use a disciplined approach to testing new products and ideas.

Eric Ries

#84. I love living in Brooklyn. Originally I moved there because I could enjoy a bigger space for less money than I would ever get in Manhattan.

Raquel Zimmermann

#85. Once a person gains experience and a good reputation, it takes less and less money to create bigger and bigger investments.

Robert Kiyosaki

#86. I run a business. People want to work for less money, I pay them less money ... Women shouldn't be so grateful. Know what you're worth. Walk away.

Amy Pascal

#87. Seriously. Poor little me can deal with having mated a millionaire."
"Oh, you found someone else? With less money?

Vivian Arend

#88. I like to see how I can do it for less money.

Stanley Tucci

#89. Writing is a lot like sex: at first you do it because you enjoy it. Then you find yourself doing it with others. But if you're any good at all, you end up doing it for less money than it's worth.

Michael Goulding

#90. Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.

Tucker Max

#91. Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car.

George Bernard Shaw

#92. If workers have less money in their pockets to put food on the table, they will be spending less money; your economy will suffer.

Martin O'Malley

#93. The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.

Walter Bagehot

#94. Don't ever think $7,000 isn't a lot of money in baseball. I've had huge arguments over a lot less.

Jim Bouton

#95. For many scientists less divinely gifted than Einstein,the chief reward for being a scientist is not the power and the money but the chance of catching a glimpse of the transcendent beauty of nature.

Freeman Dyson

#96. The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.

Charles Koch

#97. The same man who will quote from Benjamin Franklin on thrift for the house organ would be horrified if consumers took these maxims to heart and started putting more money into savings and less into installment purchases.

William H. Whyte

#98. In the long run, stories are probably no less valuable than money, but in the short run they have their decided

Paul Auster

#99. Monopoly money; it's not legal tender in that sphere where we have to do our work. In fact, the more energy we spend stoking up on support from colleagues and loved ones, the weaker we become and the less capable of handling our business.

Steven Pressfield

#100. The Great Bookkeeper up in the sky has always been reluctant to give me money. Or perhaps I never learned to think big. I decided that if your demands are less than your income, you are rich, but if your demands are greater, you feel poor. The trick is to adjust your demands.

Thaddeus Golas