Money Quotes - Page 85

Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.

We got no wealthy black people. We got rich people. Shaq is rich. The guy who signs his checks is wealthy.

Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens.

We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one.

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

For good days one should save money, women should be protected even if it takes the money saved. But for self preservation the money and the women should be sacrificed!!

America focuses on being very intelligent because that's how you make more money.

Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell.

I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.

I like having the dough to come and go as I please.

If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.

The mythology about the UN is absolutely breathtaking. People believe it costs a great deal of money to the United States. Completely untrue: it doesn't. The United States makes a net gain. People believe it's a world government, although the UN is a pathetically weak organization which improvises in emergencies to try to prevent the worst from happening.

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

Everything you have, whether it's money or stuff, is an obligation. It is as much your duty to care for and nurture any object you own as it would be if that object were your child. All possessions come with responsibilities. More possessions equals greater responsibility.

I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.

We need to make a game out of earning money. There is so much good we can do with money. Without it, we are bound and shackled and our choices become limited.

Everybody is afraid they won't have any money after they die, but Jack Benny discovered a way to take it with him. He had his appendix taken out and a piggy bank put in.

With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.

Listen! We're not just doing this for the money! We're doing this for a S*** LOAD of money!

The most important thing for workers to understand is that you have to make yourself indispensable. You must make money for your employer or make his life easier, preferably both. Also, you have to learn as much as you can about your chosen endeavor.

Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it enables people to have no need of each other.

You make a living from 8 to 5, but you make money from 5 to 8.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.