Money Quotes
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TARP is funded by taxpayers, so there are many rules about how that money can and can't be used. The result: GM spends an awful lot of time checking in with the people who administer TARP over everything from hiring to executive compensation and management. For a global company, that adds up to a lot of distraction.
Edward Whitacre, Jr.
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I might go my whole life stealing money. I got paid to play basketball, which is a scam. I get paid to watch basketball, which is a scam.
Charles Barkley
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Sure every driver has his value and you want to be respected but again money is not something that drives me.
Lewis Hamilton
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I don't care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk.
Lucas Grabeel
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I think the single biggest thing that money gave me-and obviously I came from a place where I was a single mother and it really was hand to mouth at one point. It was literally as poor as you can get in Britain without being homeless at one point. If you've ever been there you will never, ever take for granted that you don't need to worry. Never.
Joanne Rowling
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A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
Bobby Darin
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The Internet is about giving the consumer exactly what they want, whether there's an audience of one or 1,000 or 10,000, and then figuring out how to make money on it later.
Jason Calacanis
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I'd only do Big Brother again if you paid me three times as much money.
Artis Leon Ivey Jr.
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Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?
Plato
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An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
Emil Zatopek
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We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.
William Weld
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I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses your information, they are stealing the bank's money, not yours.
Frank Abagnale
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We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we were winning the Cold War or in the 1940s during World War II, the responsible thing to do has been to borrow money to win the war.
Ken Mehlman
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People who make lots of money at what they do should just shut up about it.
Debra Winger
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I personally think that people should spend more time and money on their marriages instead of weddings.
Barun Sobti
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Any sport where people earn a lot of money you are going to get groupies.
Eric Bristow
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The American people are tired of the out-of-control spending, and they want Washington to get their act in order and stop spending money we don't have.
Jim Jordan
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In 1993, my first documentary was about the civil war in Algeria. That was in French and in Arabic. Another short film I did was silent. What I'm trying to say is that, yes, I'm Italian, and yes, I make films with Italian money, but personally, I've always been invested in the broader world of film-making.
Luca Guadagnino
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The kibbutz way of life is not for everyone. It is meant for people who are not in the business of working harder than they should be working, in order to make more money than they need, in order to buy things they don't really want, in order to impress people they don't really like.
Amos Oz
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It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.
Kathleen Turner
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If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
Douglas Coupland
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The biggest challenge is how you get money for independent films, in these ever-changing times when most people don't really want to invest in that anymore.
Famke Janssen
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When you look at movies like 'Titanic,' they make money because of women. They go to see it and bring their men, too.
David Ramsey
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I'm always being accused of being a Hollywood Republican, but I'm not! I have just as many Democratic ideas as Republican ones. If they could build three fewer bombs every month and give the money to foster care, that would be great.
Bruce Willis