Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can’t drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against ’em anyway, you don’t belong in office.
The entire planet is drawn to Indian culture and soft power. The global community looks to us for solutions to international problems – whether terrorism, money laundering or climate change. In a globalised world, our responsibilities are also global.
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
You have to want to be married to someone. You have to feel that reciprocated. Marriage for marriage’s sake doesn’t make any sense to me, and I found someone with whom I could put my money where my mouth is, I guess.
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.
I want a comfortable old age and to be looked after – I have arthritis – and money is a factor.
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.
The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn’t have it.
Money and women. They’re two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn’t do for anything else. Same with money.
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a form of money that’s a stable field that the government can’t destroy and can’t distort. Because its creation is governed by the laws of mathematics. It can’t happen any faster or slower than a certain rate, and it all sort of self-adjusts.
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
Fashion is more about taste than money – you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your needs; it’s all about the fit. I do the alterations myself – I’m quite a seamstress – it’s the influence of my Hungarian mother.
No complaint… is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
To me, spending millions of dollars recreating the world’s sadness with actors and props and sets – it seems like a kind of arrogant waste of money… Unless, that is, it’s a film about an historical event.
For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
It’s amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.
Life started getting good when I started making money.
I have an impact and people look up to me now. It’s more than the money.
I want to put money back in people’s pockets.
Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.
A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.
We want to make our own Netherlands, to close our borders and to keep all that money that we give to the foreigners, there is billions, to Africa for development, to Brussels, to Greece, to asylum seekers in the Netherlands, we will stop that and give all that money to the Dutch people living in the Netherlands.
I’m proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.
We have one of the highest interest rates in the world, and we owe more money per capita than any other country. All we need is a nail hole in the bottom of the boat and we’re sunk.
I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is.
I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.
Back in the 1970s, Kodak tried to give $25m to a black civil rights organisation in Rochester, New York. The company’s shareholders rose up in arms: making this politically charged offering wasn’t the reason they had entrusted Kodak with their money. The donation was withdrawn.
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.
No matter how much money you have, you can lose it.
Always remember, money isn’t everything – but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.
I don’t like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.
I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.
Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.
For I can raise no money by vile means.
Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren’t about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?
Business is other people’s money.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.
Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, appliances, and heating and cooling equipment – money we could save by investing in energy efficiency.
Money just draws flies.
I don’t talk about money.
I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.
Just because you got money doesn’t mean you’re gonna be happy, and just ‘cuz you can buy everything in the world doesn’t mean you’re gonna find your purpose.
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.
A woman’s best protection is a little money of her own.
The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.
Money can’t buy life.
Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
Money doesn’t buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant.
My mom, her money going was straight to the bills.
Money makes your life easier. If you’re lucky to have it, you’re lucky.
Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.
It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.
Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
Mafia guys are all just insecure people who want their money. They’re like little seven-year old kids when they don’t get their way. I knew guys like that growing up in New Jersey.
In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.
I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I’m singing now is what makes the money.
Bank failures are caused by depositors who don’t deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
I know all I really wanna do is get money and take care of my family.
