First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I’m other things… But I didn’t play drums to make money.
Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to afford this and that. Acting seemed to be a shortcut out of the mess.
If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don’t think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one’s own culture and social organisation.
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
Art is for anyone. It just isn’t for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that’s irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
I’m tired of love; I’m still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
If I meet Putin, I’ll say to him: ‘So you’ve finally given us back our territory, how much more are you ready to give as compensation money for taking away our land and helping those who took part in the escalation in Crimea and Donbass?’
Banks have a new image. Now you have ‘a friend,’ your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.
I find money some way or other goes very fast. But I think I can reflect it has been spent with satisfaction and to my own honour.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail.
I’m not a writer because I want to make money. I’m a writer because I’m a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.
I don’t like to spend a lot of money on haircuts: I’ll sometimes grow my hair and get an acting job and get them to cut it for free. I think for a lady, though, it’s okay to spend a lot on a haircut.
Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices and it’s money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer, operate and account for computer systems that contain protected information.
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
Focus on solving real problems and not on making money. There will be enough takers for your solutions. You will help make lives of some people better, and money will follow.
You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
It’s not about the gold medals or the trophies or the money. It’s about the people that you cherish and can share incredible moments with.
An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
I don’t remember ever stealing things, but I suppose I was endlessly borrowing money off people.
War is hugely profitable. It creates so much money because it’s so easy to spend money very fast. There are huge fortunes to be made. So there is always an encouragement to promote war and keep it going, to make sure that we identify people who are ‘others’ whom we can legitimately make war upon.
My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.
You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it, because it’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me.
I have no one to leave the money to. I’m a single man. I like spending my money.
I make a lot of money and I’m worth every cent.
If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
When an actor has money he doesn’t send letters, he sends telegrams.
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo – and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
People say, ‘Well you know the economy’s bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow’s money, and other people’s money maybe… We Chinese love to save money.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
Mayweather was TBE – The Best Ever – at making money, but look at his highlights and look at mine. You can’t pretend it’s the same.
That money talks, I’ll not deny, I heard it once: It said, ‘Goodbye’.
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent.
We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
Wealth flows from energy and ideas.
You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don’t say nothin’ ’bout the money. ‘Hi, how ya doin’? How’s ya mama doing?’ Man, how’s my money doin’?
Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.
People think about Bitcoin incorrectly. They think about it as currency or about gold or hoarding, speculation, about how much money do you make. When really, what it is is an API for programmable cash transactions.
Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
If anything, the children of Paris should be giving me even more money for having the privilege of being in the same city as my incredible quality. And so should David Beckham. Call it a Zlaritable donation.
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Batman. I like the idea that if I had enough money, time, and vengeance, I could become him.
Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.
People say that the most expensive piece of medical equipment is the doctor’s pen. It’s not that we make all the money. It’s that we order all the money.
Nothing wrong with making money.
You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.
Money laundering is not a crime. It’s just because certain men with guns don’t like what other people are doing with their own money, so they decide it’s okay to lock those people in a cage.
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t know which half.
What a brutish master sin is, taking the joy from one’s life, stealing money and health, giving promise of tomorrow’s pleasures, and finally leading one onto the rotten planking that overlies the mouth of the pit.
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.
I think people’s perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it’s not about money.
My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.
Time is money.
IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together… But where did the money go?
