Money Quotes
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An Irishman hears that the banks are failing. He runs into the bank where he keeps his money and demands every cent of it. 'Yes sir,' the teller says politely. 'Do you want it in cash or in the form of a check?' The Irishman replies: 'Well, if you have it, I don't want it. But if you haven't got it, I must have it immediately.'
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I wanted to. I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled. Thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.
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The only thing I want from my money is to die in comfort.
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I'll invest my money in people.
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If you have good stocks and you really know them, you'll make money if you're patient over three years or more.
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It is a commonplace executive observation that businesses exist to make money, and the observation is usually allowed to go unchallenged. It is, however, a very limited statement about the purposes of business
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Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.
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Jesus tells you exactly how to get it. Put your money in missions-and in your church and the poor-and your heart will follow.
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It started out as kind of a joke, and then it wasn't funny anymore because money became involved. Deep down, nothing about money is funny.
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Risk is what you control and fortune is really all about risk. Bottom Line: Fortune comes from big money bets on very low probability events.
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I believe I have a responsibility that goes along with the money I make. I can help a lot of people.
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I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.
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Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
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It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.
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It was hard to believe there was so much money in all this bitter and poverty-stricken world. So much money, so very much money, and someone else had it, someone who took it lightly and didn't need it.
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Sometimes you have to wait for the right deal. They all seem good, at least at first, and they may make you some quick money. But when the right deal comes, and it fits into your [overall] plan, it's just overwhelming success. Sometimes, with the long-term deals, you have to take a risk if you're going to get a reward. It's exactly like fighting. Sometimes you have to take chances to get that huge win.
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Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.
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I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hundreds of millions of dollars. Is that the standard by which I should measure myself? Where does that take you if you're in my business? I think it takes you to pretty dark, corrupt places.
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I'm not starry eyed, and I'm not money crazy.
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I'm someone who'd never base how happy I am on how much money I have, or how good a restaurant is because of how posh it is.
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Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.
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Send me money, send me green, and Heaven you will meet. Make your contribution and you'll get a better seat.
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I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.
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During these last twelve years, with his left hand scarcely aware of what his right was up to, he had saved many souls. And he never saw a weeping child in the street without administering lollipops, or an old woman carrying a heavy burden but he did not turn aside to carry it for her. His huge kindness grew with the years, and his wealth, by giving him the means of gratifying it, had enlarged rather than shut up his heart. Though he had continued through all these years to detest the pursuit of money, yet its possession had done much for him.
