Money Quotes
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That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplifications of our culture.
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It's wrong and disgusting to follow children around and take their picture and sell it for money.
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It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads.
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A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.
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Why spend money on movies when you can spend it on gas? Or dry cleaning? Or groceries?
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Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.
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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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Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
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Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.
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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.
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The way I see it, the expensive people who get hired when you have money are the fancy people who tell you what you can't do.
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If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans and the very dream that is America.
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With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there.
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I'd tell any coach not to move for money... Stay at your job if you're really happy.
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The bestseller charts, a sure indicator of public taste, tell us with relentless frequency that Marian Keyes or Jeffrey Archer is a better author, by some dizzying six-figure sum, both in numbers of copies and money, than, say, J. M. Coetzee or Patrick White. Are they right?
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I look at my annual budgets for everything and anything, and I look to see where I can save the most money on those items. Saving 30% to 50% buying in bulk - replenishable items from toothpaste to soup, or whatever I use a lot of - is the best guaranteed return on investment you can get anywhere.
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There is not a lot of money in competition dancing. There never has been; it's all about winning the trophies, really. It's not like golf.
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Very often, I think about the people that I represent. I meet people who have thousands and thousands of employees and millions and millions of customers - and also make a lot of money. But I think about the millions of Europeans that I represent in order to try to balance that so we can meet on more equal terms.
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Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising, all the money he has already spent is lost.
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The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money.
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Show me an actor who doesn't want to be famous, and I'll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there's more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially.
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Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is.
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Don't expect things to happen fast. Be empathetic with the people you are photographing. Don't be concerned about money.
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Don't most men actually think that the more money they spend on a date, the more fingers they get to stick in your pussy before they kiss you goodnight?
