Money Quotes

• I put $5 million into the real-estate business when the world was coming to an end, and three years later, by 1980, I woke up and was worth a hundred. That's a lot of money back then.

  

  John Catsimatidis
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• Whenever people are trying to give you money, and you're like, 'No! Don't,' you have to stop and consider, what am I saying no to?

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • People
  • Trying
  • Stop

• I feel like my perception has changed a little because when I was posting stuff online it was an extension of my studio and then it started getting some of the attention. Now it's like, "Oh, this is actually a place where you can make money," but I'm not interested in competing in that space. It seems like too much to deal with.

  

  Kalup Linzy
  • Attention
  • Space
  • Perception

• The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Thinking
  • Money
  • Spiritual

• The sad part is, if they had received the right advice, they could have kept the money growing tax-deferred for years.

  

  Hal Rogers
  • Growing
  • Advice
  • Sad

• I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding. I'm going away tomorrow for a long time and I fear that if I wait till I return you'll have married some one else with a little money. So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Husband
  • Taste
  • Declaration

• I never chose money, I always chose people. I wanted to be around people who knew more than I did. I think that’s why I never fell in love with an actor. They never seemed to know any more than I did. I wanted to be with writers… My idea of a dream man was Thornton Wilder.

  

  Lillian Gish
  • People
  • Why
  • Dream

• I didn’t really expect to make any money. If I could make enough to cover the rent and buy some food that would be fine. As it turns out, it turned out to be quite valuable in the end.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Money
  • Food

• All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

  

  Curtis Carlson
  • Life
  • Money

• Trump is the only hope to defeat the Kingmakers. Because everybody else will fall in line. The Kingmakers have so much money behind them.

  

  Phyllis Schlafly
  • Hope
  • Fall
  • Trump

• I don't get paid for what I do in public places. So I invest the money I earn in galleries back into doing the stuff I passionately want to do on the street.

  

  Ben Eine
  • Money
  • Galleries
  • Public Places

• You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.

  

  Ben Wheatley
  • Long
  • Money
  • Decision

• The way I look at it, everything is a trade. You acquire some money, so then you've got no financial burdens, but everyone wants your money and so who can you trust? Or you've got no money and you can trust anyone, but then you've got the worry to pay bills. Which is worse?

  

  Matt LeBlanc
  • Trust
  • Worry
  • Financial

• It's very American, making a lot of money.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Money
  • American

• If I start a film of my own, then what I eliminate is acting in other people's movies. Because once I start, and I go raise the money, it's about two and a half or three years, and I can't stop. I have people hired. I can't say, 'Ooh there's a good part called 'Drive'; I'll see you in three months.'

  

  Albert Brooks
  • People
  • Good
  • Stop

• Some believe in Jesus, they don't act like they do. Some believe in Mohammed, I don't believe that's true. Cause they do believe in money, and gold is what it's for, all the gold can't buy no peace of mind in a world that don't believe in nothing anymore.

  

  Don McLean
  • World
  • Believe
  • Mind

• Compared to TV, 'Palookaville' was restriction-free, except we had no money and no time.

  

  Alan Taylor
  • Time
  • Money
  • Free

• I don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • Money
  • Art
  • Career

• It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Money
  • Making
  • Selling Out

• A lot of people are happy to give money to charities but are wary of giving through taxes because they feel it doesn't produce any value.

  

  Leila Janah
  • People
  • Happy
  • Giving

• Working in a sugar mill is absolute misery for very little money.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Money

• I know a lot of guys say that when they are younger - 'I'm gonna get it, get my money, and get out' - and then end up wrestling until they're 50. But that could end up being me, too. I can tell you I want to get out early and end up eating my own words. All of a sudden, I'm 50, and I'm still walking out there.

  

  Dean Ambrose
  • Up
  • Words
  • Walking

• Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money, but the more you have, the less each additional dollar matters. This means that you value money most in times when you have less income and more expenses.

  

  Emily Oster
  • Up
  • Money
  • Value

• Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up creating some of the algorithms that Oakland GM Billy Bean's statisticians used to win games with less salary money available for star players.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Up
  • Long
  • Star

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