When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.
~By George Soros ~
Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
~By C. Wright Mills ~
The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time.
~By Bill Murray ~
Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.
~By Ian MacKaye ~
It's all about the money.
~By Joseph Jackson ~
I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.
~By Angelina Jolie ~
Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.
~By Wayne Coyne ~
Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.
~By Kate Smith ~
I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig.
~By Joe Rogan ~
It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.
~By Nicholas Lea ~
People would pay money to work at CNN.
~By Larry King ~
Money does not motivate me as long as I can provide for my children.
~By Steve Waugh ~
I'm not sure about the selling part, but I've always found that the things I've worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together.
~By Steven Tyler ~
Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal.
~By Frank Lampard ~
The most popular labor-saving device is still money.
~By Phyllis George ~
Another is, if you take money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket, you're no richer.
~By Merton Miller ~
Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.
~By Wilhelm Steinitz ~
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
~By Dan Millman ~
Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
~By Dana Rohrabacher ~
The American Dream is really money.
~By Jill Robinson ~
But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just so it can turn around and raise their energy rates.
~By Maria Cantwell ~
It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.
~By Eugene Ormandy ~
We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the Timor Sea, and invests in conservative, safe, long-term investment portfolios - right now in US Treasury Bonds.
~By Jose Ramos Horta ~
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
~By Coco Chanel ~
I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money.
~By John Hickenlooper ~
It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.
~By Ron Livingston ~
We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Children's Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didn't raise a significant amount of money.
~By Tom Kite ~
The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.
~By Wilt Chamberlain ~
Time and again we have learned that the best way to achieve growth and create jobs is for hardworking people to keep more of their own money in their own pockets.
~By Chris Chocola ~
Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.
~By Rocco DiSpirito ~
In the industry, you do need some ethics - if one film does well, then thousands get work and money comes back to the industry. I guess the bottomline is, if there are two versions, then the better one will click.
~By Ajay Devgan ~
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.
~By Agnes Smedley ~
It is no secret that those of us in the Northwest believe the Administration's proposal to drive up the cost of electricity in our region is not only misguided, but also will not achieve the intended goal of raising money for the treasury.
~By Greg Walden ~
Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.
~By Robert Graves ~
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
~By Mother Teresa ~
It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
~By Rachel Hunter ~
It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
~By Mahalia Jackson ~
Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
~By Jackson Browne ~
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
~By Will Rogers ~
People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.
~By Frank Black ~
Studies indicate that most of young adults struggle to grasp even the most basic financial principles that will allow them to manage money and prepare for their future.
~By Ron Lewis ~
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.
~By Giorgio Moroder ~
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
~By Sallust ~
When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
~By Billy Joel ~
Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?
~By Matthew MacFadyen ~
We put our life on the line to fight for them, put on a show and these guys take our money so whatever happens to Bob Arum, Don King or anyone else is fine with me.
~By Larry Holmes ~
The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money.
~By Steve Brown ~
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
~By Mother Teresa ~
If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.
~By Eric Cantor ~
I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.
~By Cornelius Vanderbilt ~
No, I'm happy doing this. Five sweaters and a pair of dirty pants, you can make pretty good money.
~By McLean Stevenson ~
We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money.
~By Robert Byrd ~
The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.
~By Miroslav Vitous ~
An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
~By Emil Zatopek ~
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.
~By Ron Paul ~
Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best.
~By Lynn Swann ~
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
~By Hunter S. Thompson ~
We are spending more money on bond holders than we are on our own citizens. It took 204 years to have this happen. The other party will not even allow a recorded vote on this issue so that we can see how people stand on that issue.
~By Jim Cooper ~
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could.
~By Tom Wilkinson ~
I mean, price is price. It's just where you want to spend your money.
~By Rob Walton ~
Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.
~By Bob Edwards ~
I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.
~By Vash Young ~
Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price.
~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
I've got a bit of money in the bank. I'm quite comfortable.
~By Paul Gascoigne ~
The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
~By Warren Buffett ~
The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs.
~By Joe Lieberman ~
I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV show I'd never have to worry about money and wouldn't have to do anything I didn't want to do.
~By Jerry Orbach ~
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films.
~By Jeremy Brett ~
They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.
~By John Lee Hooker ~
Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.
~By Tiger Woods ~
The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.
~By Jon Bon Jovi ~
I'm not doing this to be a pop star. I've had plenty of money and attention. I'm doing it for credibility.
~By Lisa Marie Presley ~
There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.
~By Oswald Spengler ~
Money is a poor man's credit card.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.
~By David F. Houston ~
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
~By Candace Bushnell ~
I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.
~By Daniel J. Evans ~
Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.
~By Renee Zellweger ~
It's actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don't have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money - there are no good shoe stores.
~By Katie Holmes ~
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.
~By Gemma Arterton ~
One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
~By Indira Gandhi ~
As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.
~By Gordon Sinclair ~
You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
~By Abraham Polonsky ~
Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.
~By Mel Torme ~
I have more money now than I know what to do with.
~By Mark Wahlberg ~
At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like.
~By Terence Stamp ~
It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion.
~By Roma Downey ~
I know that money speaks more loudly than need.
~By Knute Nelson ~
Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children.
~By Thomas Jordan Jarvis ~
That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'
~By Jim Carrey ~
Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.
~By Michael King ~
Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.
~By Charlton Heston ~
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