Money Quotes
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I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.
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Banks now want you to pay for face time, as more institutions charge fees for what was once the ritual for withdrawing and depositing your money: interacting with a teller.
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To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects.
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[On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money, and we are very odd to look at as we go about our lives.
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As a philanthropist, I give away a lot of money every year. Yet I thought there was a higher leverage to come in and create movies and TV shows that were actually able to do some good in the world.
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The general message would be to say to all these young people: If you have entrepreneurial aspirations, there is money, there are consumers, there is a huge market. The only thing you need to do is to go there and start doing things.
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The most important thing however is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium but a useless team, because we couldn't afford anything better?
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When you're dealing with a big amount of money, you should have your own accountant and your own lawyer.
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Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
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People love to say we get paid a lot of money to play a game, but it stopped being a game when you start getting paid.
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I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.
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In Maine, we are fortunate to have a Clean Elections system that allows legislators to turn down corporate special interest money. At the national level, Congress should follow Maine's example by empowering the voices of small donors.
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People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren't here to enjoy them, what good do they do?
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The hybrid engine costs a lot of money, and customers are hardly willing to spend so much more for a car.
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I was never interested in money. I always looked down on it. But now that I have less money, I see that without money, you cannot do much. Everything in the end is about money.
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Your sanity is harder to get back than money or contacts. You are the magic. You are the art. You can't lose that.
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It's not about how much money I'm getting paid. It's just a love of one-on-one combat. I feel I'm at home. I love the ring entrances, the talking. I'm the master of it all.
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If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.
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The idea of solving as huge and long-term a problem as inequality - which, for my money, is the biggest single problem we have here at home - just never gets serious concern from both sides.
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There's almost too much venture capital in India - there are issues with seed capital, but for venture capital, there's a lot money chasing deals here.
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If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.
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The females don't respect themselves; they only think materialistically. They want money, but they don't think, I'm gonna get this money on my own, they think, I'm gonna get money from this guy.
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Praxagora: I want all to have a share of everything and all property to be in common; there will no longer be either rich or poor; ... I shall begin by making land, money, everything that is private property, common to all. ... Blepyrus: But who will till the soil? Praxagora: The slaves. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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Money is being wasted on adverts that go right over a consumer's head. They may win awards at Cannes, but they lose at the cash register.
