Money Quotes
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I don't particularly love live performance of my music. I love writing and recording, but you can't make money off of that.
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In America, money takes the place of God.
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I'm very rich - in friends. I'm too nice a fellow. I give most of my money away.
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It's one of the greatest comforts of working in ministry: the unspoken certitude that your spouse did not marry you for your money.
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Once you start getting money, it relieves your stress of worrying about how you're going to pay your next bill. It's more like another stress of how many bills you have to pay.
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I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Most restaurants in most cities, including Washington, are at a sort of mid-level. They're somewhat trendy, or they have some sort of gimmick, or they're somewhat expensive. And they make a lot of money off drinks. I tell people don't go to most of them, unless your goal is just to socialize.
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The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.
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A banker is a man who will lend you money if you can prove to him that you don't need it.
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Recollect that to a woman who gets her living by her pen, 'time is money,' as it is to an artist. Therefore, encroaching on her time is lessening her income. And yet how often is this done (either heedlessly or selfishly) by persons professing to be her friends, and who are habitually in the practice of interrupting her in her writing hours.
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Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I said to my office, 'This is ridiculous for me to go and speak about postmodern theatre when I don't know what it means, but... they're paying me a lot of money, so I'll go.'
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You know how I think they choose people for Gryffindor team?" said Malfoy loudly a few minutes later, as Snape awarded Hufflepuff another penalty for now reason at all. "It's people they feel sorry for. See, there's Potter, who's got no parents, then there's the Weasleys, who've got no money - you should be on the team, Longbottom, you've got no brains.
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Dark green is my favorite color. It's the color of nature and the color of money and the color of moss!
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There's nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated.
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Government can take your money at gunpoint; businesses have to persuade you.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Money to me is just the biggest blessing in the world that allows me freedom.
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I would never quit comedy to make money. I've been doing it, like, 30 years. I still love it. That's my life.
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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.
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I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love.
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It's always weird when people approach me to make an investment. I tell them, 'I don't need any more money. I'm good.' Then I wait for their expression. That part is entertaining, because people look at you like you're crazy when you say you don't need any more money. Who says that?
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America focuses on being very intelligent because that's how you make more money.
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If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it.
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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.
