Money Quotes
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Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.
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I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability.
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Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.
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I think you think that phone sex is about getting the caller off, but it's about keeping the caller on. It's about leading with your personality and making sure that they're still listening to you and that they're still interested in you because you cannot make money when they hang up.
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In primitive society, man produced directly for the satisfaction of his own wants, but with the development of society came differentiation of function; exchange and barter arose, various trades sprang up, and with the necessity of commercial intercourse came the invention of money.
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A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
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I'm a pretty disciplined investor and pretty disciplined buyer. I do my due diligence. I do my homework. I don't waste money.
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Congress as a whole needs to step back and look at the way it conducts its business. It's not just lobbyists influencing members of Congress, it's members of Congress shaking down lobbyists for money.
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Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.
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I wasn't supposed to make it out of Detroit. I wasn't supposed to get a scholarship. I was supposed to be covering kicks the rest of my life. But here I am. I'm a man playing with the house's money, and that's a dangerous man.
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It never hurts for potential opponents to think you're more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it.
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The first thing about Houston is it's an organization run from a different perspective. In Cincy, the team lives off money it earns from football. Houston's owner has other business interests, and he controls the money.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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At 24, I was probably making more than 95 percent of my friends. I was burning through money.
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In numerous years following the war the Federal government ran a heavy surplus. It could not pay off it's debt, retire its securities, because to do so meant there would be no bonds to back the national bank notes. To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply.
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We spend a lot of extra money that we don't have to, you know, for the fans, just so they can make it more of an experience than a concert.
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Partying is not a sane way to spend money, but it's fun. When we were young, we did not have a lot of money at all, so I thought, 'If I ever get rich, I'm not going to become one of those boring rich people who doesn't spend money.'
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Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.
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The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
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I'm a shopper but not a big money/label-y shopper. It makes me a nervous wreck.
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Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
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It is one thing to want money-everyone wants more-but it is something entirely different to be worth more!
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What we shouldn't be doing is borrowing money to give benefits to the most fortunate, to put the burden and pull the rug out of those who struggle the most.
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The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
