Money Quotes

• We had two cameras, so they could turn it on and shoot as much as we wanted. You don't have to worry about wasting money on film. A lot more takes are possible.

  

  Marguerite Moreau
  • Money
  • Worry

• The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.

  

  Socrates
  • Friend
  • Value
  • Known

• Give parents and school superintendents and school boards the power to decide if they need that money for school construction or if they need it for teacher training or if they need it for new computers.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • School
  • Power
  • Parents

• Money's really - you know, song writing, yes, there's money to be made and things like that. But really, when you talk about the real money, you talk about touring. No question.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Song

• The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.

  

  Carmen Dell'Orefice
  • Life
  • Money

• Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.

  

  Armand Salacrou
  • Money
  • Pleasure
  • Economy

• There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

  

  Will Durant
  • Money
  • Socialism
  • Cure

• I sort of wanted to reveal this other side of Asia: Southeast Asia, where the Chinese have been wealthy for generations and have different ways of relating to money. I wanted to sort of reveal this world to readers.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • World
  • Different
  • Chinese

• The first year I had money, I really went shopping. I got really caught up in it. I bought all my brothers sets of luggage, and I bought 'em winter coats from Giorgio Armani - winter coats. And I got a pair of socks from this brother.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Money
  • Shopping

• It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Effort
  • Popular

• Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.

  

  Eli Broad
  • Money
  • Art

• As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • World
  • Power
  • Shadow

• Believe in miracles but don't depend on them. When you hear kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so. Spoil your spouse, not your children. Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. To help your children turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Children

• We hear talk now about reforming public education. There are billions of dollars at stake for such a reform. But I have not heard Arne Duncan, who is the U.S. Education Secretary, mention once the civic illiteracy in the country.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Money
  • Reform
  • Public Education

• I think it is conceded that I generally do pretty big things as a manager, am audacious in my outlays and risks, give much for little money, and make my shows worthy the support of the moral and refined classes.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Pretty
  • Support
  • Moral

• The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.

  

  James Altucher
  • People
  • Money

• I didn't grow up with a lot of money, but I grew up with a lot of opportunities that many people don't have.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• If everybody'd agree to quit using money, I'd be happy to play for free every day for awhile. But I don't play benefits or any kind of fund-raisers. I prefer to play at hospitals, for people who otherwise can't see us. But I can't see playing for causes, whatever the cause may be.

  

  Leon Russell
  • People
  • May
  • Happy

• My husband has no desire to work with me; don't get it twisted. He gets paid a lot of money to write giant movies. He's not into humoring me with my projects. But, that being said, I did have the story credit on 'Blades of Glory,' and writing is something that I've always been interested in pursuing more.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Desire

• I saved up my pocket money when I was about five or six years old. I just wanted to buy a CD, and at that age, I didn't care about what it was, and I ended up buying 'The Teletubbies Say 'Eh-Oh!'' I started off strong.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • Up
  • Age
  • Strong

• Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, appliances, and heating and cooling equipment - money we could save by investing in energy efficiency.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Money
  • Energy

• I like the intimacy of independent films and I like the idea that people aren't being paid necessarily as much money as some one on a studio film.

  

  Kim Shaw
  • People
  • Independent
  • Intimacy

• I worked in a boutique after work, my second job, selling women's clothes. And that was a way of not just making money but meeting women. That was very exciting job. I loved that job.

  

  Elie Tahari
  • Work
  • Women
  • Job

• After I finished the Atlantic swim I said "never again," but it didn't take long for me to change my mind. I like to push my limits. I want to raise money for cancer research and to inspire others to follow their dreams.

  

  Benoit Lecomte
  • Dreams
  • Cancer
  • Atlantic

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