Top 100 Quotes About Getting Money
#1. Music-making as a means of getting money is hell
Gustav Holst
#2. We focus on money, getting money and winning. We let the rest of them chase the women. We focus on winning cuz getting women is slight work. That's all the time with us.
Yo Gotti
#3. There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Samuel Johnson
#4. Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the unsexy parts of the business that you're faced with, like getting money. It's a really great thing to do. You feel like you're really an artist when you're doing that and you're in a company of artists.
Finn Wittrock
#5. I think the idea of getting money out of politics is critical.
Russell Simmons
#6. You will find that you cannot do without politicians. They are a necessary evil in this day and time. You may not like getting money from one source and spending it for another. But the thing for the school people to do is that if the politicians are going to steal, make them steal for the schools.
Huey Long
#7. The mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities across London that are facing hardship and deprivation and are the victims of crime.
Boris Johnson
#8. Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Samuel Johnson
#9. Getting money from my dad is a finesse job. Luckily, I have finesse coming out of my arse. I barged into his study without knocking, marched across to his desk, and held out my hand. "Give me twenty pounds," I snapped. "I need twenty pounds. Give it to me. Now!
Sarra Manning
#10. Welfare recipients are often perceived as getting money for doing nothing.13 However, decades of on-the-ground studies of welfare recipients have shown that the program has extracted at least a psychic price.
Sarah Halpern-Meekin
#11. (By 'abstract labour' Marx means work done simply in order to earn a wage, rather than for the worker's own specific purposes. Thus making a pair of shoes because one wants a pair of shoes is not abstract labour; making a pair of shoes because that happens to be a way of getting money is.)
Anonymous
#12. All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.
Plato
#13. One reason why I started fighting was because of my family, and with that, you gotta pay the bills, but I enjoy beating people up in the first place, so it plays hand in hand. Beating up, and getting money!
Houston Alexander
#14. Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
Henry Ward Beecher
#15. We're more concerned about climate or economic equality or racial justice or anything else that is good for people and the planet, we simply must also spend some time wresting back our money-marinated democracy. This will require getting money out of politics and then getting people back in.
Annie Leonard
#16. If you can devote yourself to your favorite occupation without getting money for it, but in order to discover your potential, then you will find out who you are
Sunday Adelaja
#17. I just wanted to let people know that, in any aspect in which you're getting' money, you've gotta go overtime in order to provide for your loved ones or those who are around you. So that was my state of mind.
Ace Hood
#18. Morocco is the greatest. I should be getting money from the Moroccans because I'm just telling everyone that it's a wonderful place to go.
Bill Murray
#19. And that was it, Malkenhorse realized. The whole country was getting money, funded by criminal interests for the betterment of society.
Clair Harmony
#20. Most people can't obtain wealth because they tend to follow a mental program telling them that they should always put energy in getting money with actions and attention on known paths to acquire wealth.
Daniel Marques
#21. If everyone is getting money, no one is getting disrespected, and no one is getting hurt, no one should be arguing.
Damon Dash
#22. Making or getting money is a kind of game where there are not any rules at all.
William Faulkner
#23. I had to figure out how to survive in New York, and most of my time was occupied in getting an apartment and getting money. A lot of older jazz guys looked out for me and found me gigs and places to stay.
Wynton Marsalis
#24. The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is in the power of every one alike to practice this virtue.
Benjamin
#25. Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
Aristophanes
#26. I know reels can be expensive but even if you construct one on your own if you don't have enough money to get a more professional one while you're getting started, as far as college animators go or young indie developers I don't think they are going to care if you have the highest quality reel yet.
Ashly Burch
#27. When getting help with money, whether it is insurance, real estate or investments you should always look for a person with the heart of a teacher, not the heart of a salesman.
Dave Ramsey
#28. What I am getting at is that there is a point at which efficiency crosses over into lunacy, and the savings in money or resources cease to be worthwhile in light of the price paid in other ways.
Mary Roach
#29. If you want to make money and have action, you need to work from like, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Those are the hours. That just doesn't fit with a lot of people's schedules. And that's just the start of it. You've got to realize what you are getting into.
Chris Moneymaker
#30. Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.
Stephen Baldwin
#31. Being chic not only takes a great deal of money but an enormous amount of time. It practically precludes everything else, even being on charity committees. Half of one's time goes getting chic, the other half being seen that way.
Elizabeth Hawes
#32. I can remember when
delusions of grandeur
entailed wanting to
be a rock star, movie star,
a millionaire; to make it
as a writer
now it seems that it's
to want to earn a
decent living
Phil Volatile
#33. Building a business doesn't mean getting venture capital funding. It means finding customers and making money.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#34. Now, there are things I like just fine about church, and I don't just mean making money. The notion of getting together as a community to remind ourselves why we shouldn't behave like animals is a fucking great idea.
Nick Offerman
#35. I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.
Madonna Ciccone
#36. The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.
Aaron Patzer
#37. Ben West points out that even from a selfish perspective, earning to give allows you to have things that people believe make them happy, like money and a high-status job, while still getting the fulfillment that comes from knowing you are helping to make the world a better place.
Peter Singer
#38. If you're creating something that has some sort of cultural currency - if the idea is getting out there - then that will probably yield money in some form, whether it's through selling art or selling books or being asked to give a lecture.
Shepard Fairey
#39. The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.
Carol Moseley Braun
#40. Think about it: You're trying to raise cash to save an endangered animal. You've got orphaned pandas getting 3 trillion YouTube hits, and you've got seals being clubbed over the head by roughnecks. The money flows in. But what about the poor shark?
Stephen Rodrick
#41. Rich is not having more money. Rich is knowing the secret to getting everything you want in life.
Thomas L. Pauley
#43. There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money.
Derek Bok
#44. If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.
Uday Kotak
#45. A letter to Dear Abby: I am a twenty-three-year-old liberated woman who has been on the pill for two years. It's getting pretty expensive and I think my boyfriend should share half the cost, but I don't know him well enough to discuss money with him.* (f)
Walker Percy
#46. There's a wealth gap that is happening, and that is all over the world, you know? The rich are getting richer and holding a higher percentage of money or wealth that's out there.
Hill Harper
#47. The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is that marriage is a maze into which we wander - a maze that is best got through with a great companion.
Robert Fulghum
#48. Between the money and the illegal merchandise, Bones was getting millions. No wonder he laughed at my salary.
-Cat
Jeaniene Frost
#49. I think that people like getting their money's worth, so it's cool to have a load of bands in a similar genre.
Tim Lambesis
#50. I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.
Mark Wahlberg
#51. They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.
Ruben Blades
#52. I knew there would be no shortcuts for me in life-we didn't have money or access to people of power. I knew, if I was going to have any success, it would be a result of getting educated and working hard-as hard or harder than my parents did.
Megyn Kelly
#53. Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.
Armand Salacrou
#54. The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy.
Zig Ziglar
#55. Now that we have a bit of money, it is nice to get gifts for people. Before I was getting and not really giving.
Zayn Malik
#56. I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them ... but not us.
Calvin Harris
#57. Getting the big things right that make all the money, that's long cycle, really executing in a way that allows you to do it, that's short cycle.
Steve Ballmer
#58. I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're getting a consensus around what needs to be done.
Barack Obama
#59. Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters.
Robin Tunney
#60. The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to.
David Mamet
#61. Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.
Ellen Burstyn
#62. As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried, for that was the only means of getting mail and money between these points.
Calamity Jane
#63. But Jesus, when you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.
J.P. Donleavy
#64. When you're signed to a big label you're always in the position of convincing them, especially now because labels are barely keeping the lights on, so getting them to spend a little bit of money is really hard.
Moby
#65. To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form.
Roy Innis
#66. I would love to get with somebody who knows the fundamentals of making the movie, then get my money up and start getting into that.
Obie Trice
#67. All the messages our kids are getting is money-taking, not giving.
Patch Adams
#68. Hard labor jobs are a poor strategy for acquiring money, but they do garner respect. Self-made millionaires know getting rich has little to do with intelligence and everything to do with focus and persistence.
Steve Siebold
#69. Don't you think its quite weird for Prince Harry, getting really stoned and seeing your grans face appearing on your money.
Frankie Boyle
#70. You see, Rodya, to my thinking, the great thing for getting on in the world is always to keep to the seasons; if you don't insist on having asparagus in January, you keep your money in your purse!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#71. If you're in your early twenties, don't put so much importance on the money, on the raise. Getting an extra thousand dollars a year is okay, but the real thing is the responsibility and the power and the experience that you're learning.
Robert Greene
#72. It was then that Marvin got religion. Not the quiet, personal kind, that involves doing good deeds and living a better life; not even the kind that involves putting on a suit and ringing' people's doorbells; but the kind that involves having your own TV network and getting people to send you money.
Terry Pratchett
#73. I often think about, 'How do we return to a simpler way of living? Is there some way that we can start to think of each other as human beings again, instead of worshiping money, instead of worshiping electronics, instead of worshiping getting ahead just for me?'
Giancarlo Esposito
#74. Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.
Jeffrey Kluger
#75. The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
Thomas Carlyle
#76. People love to say we get paid a lot of money to play a game, but it stopped being a game when you start getting paid.
Curt Schilling
#77. I don't think people understand when you say you are making a micro-budget film that you are getting paid no money.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
#78. I think we should all feel lucky and blessed that people are still, in this day and age, getting in their cars with other people and driving to a location and paying money to sit in a theater and watch a play.
Cate Blanchett
#79. Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He's very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says.
Henry Rollins
#80. I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting. So I thought, 'this is silly,' and became an actor. I certainly never thought I'd wind up in motion pictures. That was far beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of.
Glenn Ford
#81. I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
Kara Swisher
#82. It's for personal reasons, I say stiffly, which is what my mother had always told me to say about things that had to do with fighting with your brothers, getting any sort of illness that had intestinal ramifications, starting your period, and money.
Maggie Stiefvater
#83. 'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.
Beth Ditto
#84. You don't stop the watch when you are afraid of getting old, so don't cut off advertising when you want to save money."
~Madi Preda
Madi Preda
#85. New York had impressed me as a place where there was lots of money and not much difficulty in getting it.
James Weldon Johnson
#86. Getting closer to God might mean getting told to love someone I don't even like, or to give away even more of my money. It might mean letting some idea or dream that is dear to me get ripped away.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#87. The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.
Ambrose Bierce
#88. Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.
Richard Branson
#89. I realized early on that I was pretty good at organizing. A lot of it was about control. While my friends were out getting hammered at concerts, I was making money. I am a control freak.
Kevin Plank
#90. More and more investors may be coming into markets everywhere but that doesn't mean that the markets are really getting more and more efficient, even in the United States. It does mean that there is more access for savvy investors who watch the money flows.
Andrew Lo
#91. We have been getting out of the situation where we found ourselves in the early '90s, when the Soviet Union disappeared and the Russian Federation became what it is - you know, with no borders, with no budget, no money, and with huge problems starting with lack of food and so on and so forth.
Sergei Lavrov
#92. The man who is receiving the money is getting rich and the guy who is giving the money is getting poorer
Sunday Adelaja
#93. If raising money is critical to getting reelected, so is spending taxpayers' money to reward those who help get us reelected.
Congressman X
#94. In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.
Thomas Sowell
#95. The man who begins to speculate in stocks with the intention of making a fortune usually goes broke, whereas the man who trades with a view of getting good interest on his money sometimes gets rich.
Charles Dow
#96. The explosion was good. It sent a message to the rest of the world that the time of the big star getting all this money is over. And it is! I would like to think that what I did, or what we did, has had a salutary effect on the rest of the industry.
Sumner Redstone
#97. What preoccupies us is the way we define success. If you see your life purely in terms of money and power, then everything in your life becomes about 'Am I getting ahead?' and that is truly a barbaric way to live, because it eliminates huge chunks of our humanity.
Arianna Huffington
#98. When they say inflation is bad, deflation is good, what they mean is, more money for us 1% is good; we're all for asset price inflation, we're all for housing prices going up, and we're all for our stock and bonds prices going up. We're just against you workers getting more income.
Michael Hudson
#99. Truly wealthy people develop the habit of "getting rich slow" rather than "getting rich quick." To assure this, they have two rules with regard to money. Rule number one: Don't lose money. Rule number two: If ever you feel tempted, refer back to rule number one, "don't lose money."
Brian Tracy
#100. If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.
Alan W. Watts
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