Money Quotes

• If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-term results, and you don't have a stock market - then we have just put the humanitarian sector at the most extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level, and then we call the whole system charity, as if there is something incredibly sweet about it.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Money
  • Talent
  • Attract

• More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them.

  

  John Shadegg
  • Money
  • Home
  • American

• I would like to know how much taxpayer money you spent producing and sending this campaign ad.

  

  Ric Keller
  • Money
  • Campaign
  • Taxpayer

• Congressmen spend between five and seven hours a day on the phone, begging for money.

  

  Eric Massa
  • Money
  • Phone
  • Congressmen

• We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.

  

  David Dinkins
  • Time
  • Money

• If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others?

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.

  

  Lilly Ledbetter
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• Professor Galbraith is horrified by the number of Americans who have bought cars with tail fins on them, and I am horrified by the number of Americans who take seriously the proposals of Mr. Galbraith.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Car
  • Numbers
  • Proposal

• I don't need a strong EPA. I don't need to fund a lot of money there.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Money
  • Strong

• The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Giving

• I grew up in an artists' community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Art
  • Community

• We will not allow the use of crypto-currency as a surrogate money.

  

  Elvira Nabiullina
  • Money

• I think rock music is getting better. The best (selling) music has been hip-hop for quite a while. So those guys are making the money and making the videos.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Hip Hop
  • Videos
  • Rock Music

• I like money. That is, it is my preferred means of completing pecuniary transactions. I'm not particularly keen on handing over wads of currency of the realm, but at least one knows where one is, whereas the chequebook is a snare and a delusion, containing misleading numbers of blank cheques when none of the money that the bank contains is rightfully one's own. ... I think banks owe their customers a lot by way of compensation for the aggravation they cause them.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • Money
  • Transactions
  • Aggravation

• You can feel how much money goes into commercials by how swiftly they act on your mind. And they've got, like, a hypnotic quality to the way they present their products.

  

  Alexandra Kleeman
  • Mind
  • Quality
  • Present

• I'm terrified of being poor, I always have been. It's growing up as a Methodist. I'll spend that bit of extra money to get a better seat on a train sometimes, because it's quieter and calmer, but I refuse to spend money on clothes.

  

  Kevin McCloud
  • Up
  • Money
  • Growing

• It's music. It's supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it because it was my 'job,' and I only did it to make money, I don't think I'd still be doing it.

  

  Max Martin
  • Music
  • Job
  • Fun

• There is a very uneasy relationship between money and creativity, between money and almost everything. Its tendency to control and corrupt - whether it's in arts or education or politics, hardly anything is untouched by it. Journalism certainly is up there. Everything is susceptible to it.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Up
  • Education
  • Control

• The problem is this: in order to make money- lots of money- we don't need flawless literary masterpieces. What we need is mediocre rubbish, trash suitable for mass consumption. More and more, bigger and bigger blockbusters of less and less significance. What counts is the paper we sell, not the words that are printed on it.

  

  Walter Moers
  • Problem
  • Making
  • Significance

• No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Money
  • Man
  • Counsel

• If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Man
  • Wife
  • Wise

• Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.

  

  Joe Biden
  • People
  • Money

• Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Running
  • Die
  • Honor

• I've been offered big money to promote machines. And high-protein diets, when that was really popular. There was always some new powder or diet plan that somebody wanted to put my name on.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Name
  • Promote
  • Diets

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