Money Quotes - Page 10

The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.

You're Mexican until you make money and then you're Spanish.

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

The only difference between a RICH person and a POOR person is how they use their time.

I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

You can make money two ways - make more, or spend less.

The goal of a successful trader is to make the best trades. Money is secondary.

How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.

Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses

God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money.

When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing music.

Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

Global warming is part of natural cycle and there's nothing we can actually do to stop these cycles. The world is now facing spending a vast amount of money in tax to try to solve a problem that doesn't actually exist.

The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles' heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.