Money Quotes
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I am fairly rich. Money's very handy, let's face it.
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Hedge-fund managers make too much money relative to their social utility. I wish their rewards were a bit closer to those of, say, schoolteachers.
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Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it.
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You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.
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One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions.
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Not that money is a driving force. It's an honor to play for your country.
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I've always been pretty self-sufficient. I never had to borrow money from my mum, even in the early days.
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The best way of enjoying your money is to spend it on other people. I don't need much.
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It's disingenuous to... pretend the sources of our money don't impact the policy we write - you just can't serve two masters.
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I made my money turning around distressed or bankrupt companies. I did 50-some of them in my career... I started on a shoestring and eventually built up quite a fortune.
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Oh yea, I was a conservative. I was probably hard-line, preoccupied with how much money I would make and how far I would go. But I began seeing a lady who directs a homeless clinic in Fargo. One of our first get-togethers was to a Salvation Army dinner, where I met some jobless Vietnam veterans. It started my transition, opened my eyes.
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It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.
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Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?
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I want to figure out a way to not be stupid with money, then make a whole bunch of it, then I want to move to Outer Mongolia. I want to milk a yak. Maybe I'll just settle for a cow. Can you milk a bison?
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As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.
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Money is just the poor man's credit card.
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Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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The only thing I have retained from my upbringing - I did not retain the religious element - is the idea that you do not do things for money.
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My big journey was around money. I was a successful writer, I was a musician, but I was just always broke.
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I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of Bowling Green Street, Leith, went bust. If they hadn't folded, I'd probably still be scaffolding and loving it.
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The customer pays his money and gets a ticket. He cannot refuse it. He cannot get the money back. He may protest to the machine, even swear at it. But it will remain unmoved.
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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.
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Money is like sex. It seems much more important when you don't have any...
