Quotes About Pursuit Of Money

#1. If acting doesn't work out, I plan to do food photography and just eat my way through the entire world. I'm a big foodie, and if I could make some career out of it, that would be fantastic.

Jamie Chung

#2. [On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money, and we are very odd to look at as we go about our lives.

Martha Gellhorn

#3. Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.

Sarah Josepha Hale

#4. Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.

P. J. O'Rourke

#5. Life's value is lost when the pursuit of money becomes the goal as opposed to the pursuit of true happiness.

Steven Redhead

#6. Real wealth is discretionary time. Money is simply fuel for your life. You can always make another dollar, but you can't make another minute. Don't let the pursuit of money erode your wealth.

Alan Weiss

#7. That isn't about money, fame, or power. It's about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money can't buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that.

Jennifer Hudson

#8. The engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.

Sarah Josepha Hale

#9. I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.

Buzz Aldrin

#10. He'd been trying to save this woman in his dreams for years. Now here she was, all grown up, and he still felt helpless.

B. J. Daniels

#11. Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.

Jerry Only

#12. Throughout life try to remember ... to always keep your head up high and your middle finger higher!

Timothy Pina

#13. My adopted political ideals had let me approach money with an elevated level of distaste. I saw it as a materialistic pursuit for materialistic people, but what I have realized over time is that in many ways, money spells freedom.

Sophia Amoruso

#14. The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

J. Irwin Miller

#15. As for me, all I know is I know nothing.

Socrates

#16. Jewish families encourage pursuit of wealth accumulation, high-income careers, and investing.

H.W. Charles

#17. Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.

Robert Henri

#18. The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.

Annie Dillard

#19. In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

John Rawls

#20. Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they'll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.

Philip Slater

#21. The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good; the fact that the good is a by-product of the selfish pursuit of riches has nothing to do with its indisputable value.

Leo Rosten

#22. You are the Master, the mind is your servant. That is the correct relationship.

Mooji

#23. The pursuit of financial stability needs to replace the pursuit of financial freedom in our basic beliefs about what money can provide.

Erik Wecks

#24. Look at me, making one of your dreams come true. You and your Norm truck driving around Normville."
"You're practically a god.

Kasie West

#25. As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I've been had.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#26. Everybody thought Barack Obama was going to [inspire people] when he came to Washington, but, you know, the Senate seems like the place where smart people go to die.

Jon Stewart

#27. Being Latina to me is living your life like it's a big old fiesta!

Adrienne Bailon

#28. To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.

Julia Child

#29. There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundred relatively accident-free years and I see no reason to impugn their popularity ...

Jasper Fforde

#30. A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor - other people's lives. For too many of us life was no longer free; liberty no longer real; men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#31. It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.

Henry David Thoreau

#32. [On the movie American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.

Janet Maslin

#33. Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.

Heinrich Mann

#34. It takes a lot of hard work, devotion, good food, balanced diet, enough money, etcetera. Do you have any of them?

Waheed Ibne Musa

#35. The Tragallion pack wasn't exactly welcoming them with open arms ... All in all they were an angry, weary-looking group. Jace tucked Miri a little closer in to his side. "Remind me to deck Ian next time I set eyes on him."
She glanced up. "If you hold him, I'll do it for you.

Sarah McCarty

#36. Now there's a power," he said. "Harnessing the lightning! The dream of mankind!"
The Unnamed Boat surged forward.
"Is it? It's not my dream," said Didactylos. "I always dream of a giant carrot chasing me through a field of lobsters.

Terry Pratchett

#37. Kindness only goes so far, and then it's time to show your claws.

RuPaul

#38. A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

Albert Camus