Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ricky Williams

I really could not tell you how much money I have.

Kristen Johnston

I really came out to L.A. to take the money and run.

William Boyd

If you sell property of the state, state asset, which the toll road is, the money has to go to pay down the debt. Just the same as if you sell your house, you have to pay for that mortgage.

If you want to do Europa, the money is going to have to come from somewhere.

In 10 years or so, that's where the money is going to be.

Buzzie Bavasi

We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.

Budd Schulberg

You know what's wrong with our waterfront? It's the love of a lousy buck. It's making the love of a buck, the cushy job, more important than the love of man. It's forgetting that every fellow down here's your brother in Christ.

James Earl Jones

Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack.

Jaron Lanier

If you want to know what's really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of musicians, journalists, and artists, then a society is more concerned with manipulation than truth or beauty.

Janet Flanner

[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the cold, and finally unhypocritical fact that the most important thing on earth to men today is money.

Jane Bryant Quinn

A faithfully kept program of savings and conservative investments can give you more money and a better life than that of your neighbors who spend everything they get. This is probably the oldest financial advice in the world, but there are some things you can't improve on.

Jane Bryant Quinn

You don't date an annuity, you marry it. An annuity isn't a mutual fund that you buy today and sell tomorrow. Nor is it a certificate of deposit, ready for any new use at maturity. When you buy an annuity, you are making (or ought to be making) a 15- or 20-year commitment, at least.

Euripides

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Errol Flynn

If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I'm prepared to forget it if they are.

Jerry Seinfeld

I like money, but it's never been about the money.

Joaquin Phoenix

You're always thinking, What's the next move - the career, the money.

Jesse Ventura

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

Jean de la Bruyere

When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.

Jean Anouilh

In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.

Jay Leno

There is a penalty for trying to knock down a cockpit door, but it's the people who try to go from coach to 1st class they really beat up.

Mike Rowe

We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That's nuts.

Kevin Costner

I was in the show for 21 days once-the 21 greatest days of my life. You know, you never handle your luggage in the show, somebody else carries your bags. It was great. You hit white balls for batting practice, the ballparks are like cathedrals, the hotels all have room service, and the women all have long legs and brains.

Kathleen Parker

Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans, moreover, have a low tolerance for doom and gloom. We are the nation of optimism, after all. We elect leaders who promise hope and change. We are the shining city on a hill. But what happens when the lights go out?

Karl Marx

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.

Karl Marx

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Karl Marx

If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation?

Karl Marx

Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.

Karl Marx

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Karl Marx

I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.

Karl Marx

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history

Julia Cameron

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

Murray Rothbard

I want to make it clear what I am not saying. I am not saying that fiat money, once established on the ruins of gold, cannot then continue indefinitely on its own.

Moliere

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.