Money Quotes
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Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
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We have become a nation incapable of living within our means. We seem incapable of accepting the reality that owning a home is not and never was intended to be a right. It is a reward for working hard and saving up enough money to not only purchase a property, but to maintain and improve it.
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Something like 'A Single Man,' it was tiny; it was financed by one guy. We all lost money doing it.
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In this kind of super-capitalistic society, everything is turned into money. And one of the great things about art is it isn't worth anything. It's absolutely free. It's going to get made no matter what.
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People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money.
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When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.
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You know government needs a haircut. If we keep their spending down, that's more money in your pocket.
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Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.
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There is a profiteer when it comes to oil. 36 to 63 cents per gallon is swept off the top. And who profits from that? The government profits from it. And what does the government do with much of that money? It puts it into so-called 'alternative energy,' with so-called phony 'green jobs' that we're yet to see being produced.
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I pay myself three, three and half million - which is plenty of money, c'mon.
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I have a daughter and the thing I wish for her is not love, fame, money or anything like that. It's just one great best friend. You know, if you have somebody that has your back, you're gonna be all right.
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Money may not buy love, but it buys something like it. Not having any money makes love complicated.
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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
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Such huge money has been made in China - it can be hundreds of millions in a year - and there's a need to validate it by showing what they can buy and how much of it.
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Roque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the last time they had divided the spoils. Having made a hasty appraisal and reduced to terms of money those items that could not be divided, he split the whole into shares with such equity and exactitude that in not a single instance did he go beyond or fall short of a strict distributive justice. They were all well satisfied with the payment received, indeed they were quite well pleased; and Roque then turned to Don Quixote.
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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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I want to destroy the old concept that a company is a place where one sacrifices time for the sake of money.
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I would just say, if Gov. Romney wants to give back all the money he's earned from bankrupting companies and laying off employees over his years at Bain, that I would be glad to listen to him. And I would bet you $10 - not $10,000 - that he would not take the offer.
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Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
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I always give homeless people money, and my friends yell at me, 'He's only going to buy more alcohol and cigarettes.' And I'm thinking, 'Oh, like I wasn't?'
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We keep spending money and sending it overseas when we should be developing American energy.
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I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.
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Find an organization that you want to support and get involved. You can give money or give time.
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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.
