Money Quotes
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I was a very bad accountant; I didn't care about money, golf or discovering fraud. After about a year I was sacked; then I went into teacher training.
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My first synthesizer was the VCS3. I got it in Bristol in the late Sixties, long before Pink Floyd used them. I had to sell an acoustic guitar and an old reel-to-reel tape recorder to raise the money. You can do fantastic things with modern computers, but you cannot use them in the same intuitive, spontaneous way you can a VCS3.
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There used to be a tradition of the loveable rogue who would steal from the honour boxes in churches and buy a round of drinks with the money he snagged. And everyone would find him tremendously good company. But not any more.
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It is simply not credible to tackle child poverty without acknowledging the worst issue - a lack of money.
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It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.
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All of my money is spent on these nights just so we can hang out, spacing in and out of your dresses. I wanna be found by you.
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The only thing I did well was learn how to make money.
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I actually went to NYU for six months, had some family issues that kind of set me back, and I couldn't afford to go anymore. That was the theme going on in my whole life, you know: money stopping me from whatever I wanted to do.
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Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience. And in almost every case, we use up our lives making money, when we should be using our money to gain time.
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I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.
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I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
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I kept auditioning, with no savings and no money, credit card debt gaining interest. I went on unemployment. I bought ramen noodles at dollar stores. I never had to - God forbid - live on the streets.
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I made a ton of money.
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Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.
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Ask any parent what we want for our children, and invariably we say 'a better life.' To that end, we give our time, our sleep, our money, and our dreams, much as our parents did before us. We all want a better life for our children. But what we want for them ceases to matter if we leave them an unlivable world.
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We had no difficulty whatsoever in raising a great deal of money in those days. The sum paled by comparison with the current fund requirement.
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If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do.
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If I'm a bank, and I'm making risky loans, I have an incentive, if I can, to make those loans using other people's money: in other words, to make highly leveraged loans.
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Most people find they have to worry about money; if you don't ever, then in some fundamental way, you are cut off from most people.
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People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying to raise money at the low end and find that they can't get funding because of this mismatch. I think that there is an opportunity there.
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The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.
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I've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money.
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To turn a human being into a part-canine or lupine creature takes a good deal of artistry and money.
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The friends of tabloid newspapers often point out that their journalism exists only because millions of people pay money to read it.
