Willie Sutton Quotes

I rob banks because that's where the money is.

Willie Sutton

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• You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Money
  • Acting
  • Doing

• I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Money
  • Fame
  • Craving

• Muzaffarnagar is 40 kilometers from my village. So I used to see films if I was able to save money and on special occasions like Eid, Diwali.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Money
  • Special
  • Village

• What Mexicans want and aspire to, is to go there and work temporarily and raise some money and come back home. That's what they want, so nobody's asking for those two, three million Mexicans that are illegally in the United States to become American citizens.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Work
  • Money
  • Home

• Often, investors will discover a manager after he's had a terrific run, usually when he lands on a magazine cover somewhere. Invariably, funds swell up with new investor money just before they revert to their long-term averages.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• I'm always put in the unfortunate position of asking people to donate money and people I know in bands to play benefit concerts and all this stuff.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • People
  • Money
  • Know

• People really do spend a lot of money on their pets - sometimes more then themselves.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • People
  • Money
  • Sometimes

• The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Work
  • Money
  • Power

• Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Kids

• People need to have enough to eat and have work and money. But there are other things that are important.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Money

• The NCAA makes so much money off of their kids, and they put ridiculous - absolutely ridiculous - restrictions on everything that they can do.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Ridiculous

• Mauthen ain’t much for listenen. Nothin’ plugs a man’s ears like money.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Money

• John Kerry only went to prep schools because he had an aunt who had the money to pay for his way into those prep schools.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Money
  • Aunt

• I do enjoy working with Ryan although he owes me money.

  

  Colin Mochrie
  • Money

• Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Life
  • Money

• I believe that doing the right thing will not only create the best culture and the best product, but you'll also make the most money - even if you're making decisions that lose you money in the short term.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Culture

• Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd.'

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Google

• The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.

  

  Martin Puryear
  • Work

• You could take the Internet enthusiasm that was happening in 1999 and 2000 here in the U.S., and in China it was three-to-five times more ebullient.

  

  Mary Meeker

• I review books as a day job, and through the years I've come to view the contemporary memoir as, almost always, a saga of victimization, sometimes by others, sometimes by the self, and sometimes by illness or misfortune, leading, like clockwork, to healing and redemption.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Job
  • Day
  • Healing

• More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.

  

  Akio Morita
  • People
  • Real
  • Trying

• I rob banks because that's where the money is.

  

  Willie Sutton
  • Money
  • Banks