Money Quotes
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For Tibetans, the real strength of our struggle is truth - not size, money, or expertise. China is much bigger, richer, more powerful militarily, and has much better skill in diplomacy. They outdo us in every field. But they have no justice. We have placed our whole faith in truth and in justice. We have nothing else, in principle and in practice.
Dalai Lama -
I was kind of ashamed of my bourgeois family as a teenager, I guess - I had dreadlocks, shopped in thrift stores and pretended I had no money. At that time, I would have spat on a girl who was buying Yves Saint Laurent.
Lou Doillon
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I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.
Alexander Payne -
I would never quit comedy to make money. I've been doing it, like, 30 years. I still love it. That's my life.
Leslie Jones -
I think the Fed is not designed to have effective tools to deal with the economy. It should settle for just controlling the money supply. And - if it insists, it can worry about inflation.
Jeremy Grantham -
You know government needs a haircut. If we keep their spending down, that's more money in your pocket.
Matt Rosendale -
Our societies have achieved a general level of prosperity of which most of all the human beings who have ever lived could only dream. Now we need to show that we can stop continually wanting more - more money, more stuff. We must show that it is possible for people to realise that they have enough.
John Lanchester -
Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.
Carl Menger
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One thing I never worry about is money, because I have my health and my family, and I can always go back to work.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte -
Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.
Walt Disney -
The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.
William Hazlitt -
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.
Anton du Beke -
If you throw money around like confetti, it just becomes shallow and meaningless.
John Caudwell -
It is very wrong for people to feel deeply sad when they lose some money, yet when they waste the precious moments of their lives they do not have the slightest feeling of repentance.
Dalai Lama
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Your choices run out when your money does.
Clara Fraser -
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
Mignon McLaughlin -
You can go home with a lot of money with absolutely no skill.
Howie Mandel -
I had $60,000 for my first movie. I was 33 before I made any money off of movies. I worked my ass off for free. To get that I'm "enemy number one" among young kids is a little absurd.
Uwe Boll -
Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
Joe Frazier -
I started flying because I had a fear of it early on. I figured if I learned to fly, I would understand better what was happening and started taking lessons in the late 1950's, once I had made some money on tour.
Arnold Palmer
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I didn't even have a uniform, just a cap. I wore my regular clothes. The way my shackjob Betty and I drank there was hardly money for clothes.
Charles Bukowski -
Poor and most middle-class people believe "If I have a lot of money, I could do what I want and I'd be a success." Rich people understand, "If I become a successful person, I will be able to do what I need to do to have what I want, including a lot of money."
T. Harv Eker -
I come from a family who didn't have much money but raised me to believe that money wasn't the most important thing in the world. We had enough; we were happy.
Edward Enninful -
Money counts more than you think.
Corinne Maier