Money Quotes
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I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don't really have the personality for that.
Dennis Quaid -
Music has pretty much taken over my life. I told my dad I wanted to play in a band and make lots of money. He told me I should get out of my fantasy world because it was a million-to-one chance. Now when I'm playing guitar or drums and he tells me to go do my studies, I tell him I can't--because I'm working. He just looks at me, shakes his head, laughs, and says, 'You lucky bastard.'
Ben Gillies Silverchair
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For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas
William Shakespeare -
Money isn't everything, but it is when you start thinking about putting money away for your retirement days.
Andre Leon Talley -
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
Billy Wilder -
I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
One of the benefits of doing low-budget movies is you don't have to release them wide to recoup. You can release it in a smaller way, make your money back, and keep going.
Jason Blum -
Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
David Ogden Stiers
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We used to tie-dye T-shirts and sell them to classmates. We used to make egg rolls and sell them at street fairs. I worked at the mall. My parents probably spent more money on the gas driving me to different jobs than I made.
Aileen Lee -
The top stars play in other leagues - the best players go where the money is.
Oliver Bierhoff -
I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money.
Alain Prost -
We believe that rural India is going to be the next driver of growth. You cannot make money overnight there, as you have to set up infrastructure there; the value of transactions is lower - you need a few years before you can really make all those businesses profitable.
Chanda Kochhar -
If some stock categories get too hot-and-pricey, mass supply is created via stock offerings to tap that cheap money - and, when overdone, drives it all down.
Kenneth Fisher -
I realized early on that I was pretty good at organizing. A lot of it was about control. While my friends were out getting hammered at concerts, I was making money. I am a control freak.
Kevin Plank
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MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.
David Rockefeller -
My dad used to hunt ducks, and my mom would put them in the pot. We lived really modestly. We had very little money.
Megan Fox -
Women's liberation as a movement makes some valid points. But in the final analysis, it doesn't matter who wears the pants - as long as there's money in the pockets.
Ava Gardner -
Many years ago, I was actually hired to write the sequel to 'Independence Day.' And I wrote a sequel. And they paid me a boatload of money to go write this thing. And after I wrote it, I read it and I gave them back the money and I said, 'Look, this is an okay movie I just wrote. But it's not worthy of the sequel to 'Independence Day.'
Dean Devlin -
Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.
Bill Gates -
When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books.
Betsy Lerner
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Woody Allen would go for seven years without a movie and then make one that makes no money.
Edward Burns -
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
We all have pretty much similar dreams, and at the root of all those dreams is being able to be in control of your money.
Alexa Von Tobel -
I came into politics partly because I want to be able to reduce taxes so that individuals have more of their money to spend, so that businesses have more of their money to create jobs, but I believe that lower taxes are sustainable when you get the public finances in order, so I will only make promises I can keep on taxation.
George Osborne