Money Quotes - Page 60

Every man has his price.

I know how to make money. That's what I know. Not too many people know that, that well.

First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.

I don’t think of work as work and play as play. It’s all living.

Money is for making things happen.

Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.

Printing money is merely taxation in another form.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.

I wouldn't sell my bike for all the money in the world. Not for a hundred million, trillion, billion dollars!

Being in business is not about making money. It is a way to become who you are.

In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.

Didn't you take economics? You could have had me for $49.95.

Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]

How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

that's what everybody wants, just a little more money, even the people who have it.

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help alleviate natural scarcity. But once a commodity is established as a money on the market, no more money at all is needed. Since the only use of money is for exchange and reckoning, more dollars or pounds or marks in circulation cannot confer a social benefit: they will simply dilute the exchange value of every existing dollar or pound or mark.