Money Quotes

• The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Live
  • Money
  • Purpose

• Putting out a book is absolutely a lesson in vulnerability because it doesn't matter how much of an audience you have. Some people who have giant audiences can't sell books because those audiences don't feel like they need to give them their money.

  

  Luvvie Ajayi
  • People
  • Book
  • Vulnerability

• You never talk about what you want when giving money. I don't pay attention to what other people think... There shouldn't be restrictions of any kind on political contributions.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • People
  • Political
  • Giving

• We feel that, with Sidney, we have a great opportunity over the next few years to put a great team on the ice. We're prepared to lose some money along the way. Eventually we're going to need some help.

  

  Mario Lemieux
  • Great
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• I always say to my agents, you go through one of these big kind of movies, everyone makes money, but like, I said, 'I'm the one who's gotta go make it, and if I don't have my heart in it, and it's like a love affair, I'm not going to do a good job. Then, and I don't want to just get paid. I just, I don't want to do that.'

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Good
  • Job
  • Like

• The tax rate of 35 percent is impossible to provide an incentive to the large corporations, that have $1.7 trillion offshore, to put their money back in the United States.

  

  Frederick W. Smith
  • Money

• We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• If any Republican nominee wants to run on the idea that borrowing money and printing it up and sending it to foreign countries that often hate us and burn our flag and think it's a good idea, feel free to run on that issue. But it's not really popular with the people.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Work is really wrapped up with identity. Work is not just money for most people.

  

  David Autor
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I think money, power, fame changes people a lot.

  

  George Peter John Criscuola Kiss
  • People
  • Money
  • Power

• I don't chase money, money chase me!

  

  Bikram Choudhury
  • Money

• There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Together
  • Movie
  • Movies

• Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.

  

  Andre Dubus III
  • Up
  • Children
  • Father

• There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money.

  

  Derek Bok
  • Money
  • Education

• In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Power
  • Society
  • Competition

• They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Movies
  • Hollywood
  • Sure

• From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Baby

• You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that's what I've done here. But it's worth it to me to be in a really good play.

  

  Dixie Carter
  • Up
  • Good
  • Done

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

  

  Bob Woodward
  • Money
  • Charity

• We all have aspects of ourselves that we my not be aware of. Actors in particular - they have multiple personality disorder. They get paid a lot of money to exhibit that.

  

  Brad Anderson
  • Money
  • Personality

• Writing for TV made way more sense than writing for magazines. And by sense, I mean money.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Writing
  • Money

• I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people.

  

  Leslie Caron
  • People
  • Money
  • Hate

• Most small businesses in this country today are taxed at the individual level as Corporation LLC. So whatever is cut out of those earnings is money taken out of capital for reinvestment for creating more jobs and opening up more locations.

  

  John Fleming
  • Up
  • Country
  • Today

• The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center has this wonderful program where they take in the youth, feed them, help them learn how to cook, clean, they help them get jobs, help them learn how to save their money, and they have shelters all over the city.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • Help
  • City
  • Gay

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