money

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘money’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if…

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  • “Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn’t him. This is not him.” -Michael Jackson

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  • “The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.” -Billy Sunday

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  • “I have no one to leave the money to. I’m a single man. I like spending my money.” -Elton John

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  • “Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is ‘The X Factor.’ Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.” -Iain Duncan Smith

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  • “I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me… I’ve done the parts I wanted to do.” -Jessica Lange

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  • “To give money to a woman – and here I must speak as a man – is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites.” -James Buchan

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  • “What most people don’t seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.” -Margaret Mitchell

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  • “Money does not guarantee success.” -Jose Mourinho

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  • “The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.” -Mario Batali

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  • “I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, ‘Geez, this is ridiculous.’ You just see through all that sort of stuff. I never liked those Deep Purples or those sort of things. I always hated it. I always thought it was a poor man’s Led Zeppelin.” -Angus Young

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  • “Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.” -Thomas B. Macaulay

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  • “Because I don’t take money, I’ll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.” -David Ogden Stiers

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  • “People look at me, and they go, ‘You’re white, you’re smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.’” -Adam Carolla

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  • “One thing I have clear is that I don’t want to work for money anymore.” -Antonio Banderas

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  • “My recollection is – and I’d have to confirm this – but I don’t recall paying any money to go to law school.” -Joe Biden

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  • “London changes because of money. It’s real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it’s money that changes everything in a city.” -David Bailey

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  • “I’m very unstable there’s no stability in a musician’s life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don’t know where your money’s coming from.” -James Taylor

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  • “The inequalities are greater now than in ’92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the ‘equal level’ very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately.” -Jonathan Kozol

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  • “When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.” -Anthony Trollope

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  • “You cannot drive a system that’s going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren’t sick and you don’t have to pay more money on them.” -Mehmet Oz

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  • “When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.” -Loretta Young

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  • “In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it’s all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.” -Brett Favre

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  • “I couldn’t relate to kid stuff. ‘Jimmy doesn’t like me!’ Who cares? I was worried we didn’t have gas money or food. Those were my concerns.” -Leighton Meester

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  • “During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.” -Betty White

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  • “Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.” -Andrea Dworkin

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  • “But it’s a blessing to be so successful within a year it’s the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I’m doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I’m doing.” -Ludacris

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  • “What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn’t really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.” -Diane Kruger

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  • “Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.” -Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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  • “Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.” -William J. Clinton

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  • “Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.” -Tony Campolo

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  • “In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It’s such a gamble.” -Robert Carlyle

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  • “Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.” -Paul Newman

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  • “Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character.” -Gary Ryan Blair

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  • “Hip-hop don’t have no fresh energy, none at all. It’s money driven, everybody tryin’ to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.” -Andre Benjamin

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  • “Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.” -Stephen Leacock

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  • “If I had been on ‘Bowling for Dollars,’ I’d wind up owing them money.” -Ricki Lake

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  • “People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.” -Bob Nelson

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  • “I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.” -Rod Stewart

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  • “The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.” -Johnny Carson

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  • “We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.” -Don Marquis

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  • “I was never sloppy with other people’s money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.” -Francis Ford Coppola

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  • “If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I’d have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn’t enjoy spending it.” -Martina Navratilova

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  • “At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.” -Sean Parker

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  • “To avoid ignorance and bullying, I’ve had to hide the fact that I’m a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I’ve spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this.” -Jon Cryer

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  • “It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.” -Bill Vaughan

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  • “I’ll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.” -Mahalia Jackson

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  • “I could easily exist on less money, but I like the way I live now.” -Christina Ricci

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  • “I don’t feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you’ve got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don’t buy too much.” -Vivienne Westwood

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  • “Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.” -Federico Fellini

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  • “If you have a line of business – I know this as a CEO – or if you have a teenager – I know this as a parent – who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.” -Carly Fiorina

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  • “Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers – the guys who steal all the money and take off. That’s the fun stuff.” -John Grisham

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  • “The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.” -Tom Hooper

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  • “I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn’t want to be a child.” -Maurice Sendak

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  • “Just put down 9/11… I think, on most things I’m liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I’m kind of conservative on.” -Dennis Miller

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  • “Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.” -Louis Farrakhan

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  • “Big money is ruining the political system.” -Arlen Specter

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  • “Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I’ve actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.” -John Malkovich

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  • “If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary’s. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.” -Michael Bloomberg

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  • “I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.” -Muhammad Yunus

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  • “When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.” -Jackie Chan

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  • “The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.” -Jon Meacham

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  • “Let’s be honest, I have enough money to never have to work again.” -Emma Watson

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  • “You aren’t wealthy until you have something money can’t buy.” -Garth Brooks

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  • “I’d never had money growing up, and it’s never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.” -Harlan Coben

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  • “There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.” -Harriet Ann Jacobs

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  • “A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.” -Mikhail Baryshnikov

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  • “Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.” -Alyssa Milano

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  • “If anyone tells you it’s impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you – and kiss your math.” -Danica McKellar

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  • “I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.” -Laura Linney

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  • “Money isn’t important, but you have to have enough, so you don’t have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.” -Jarvis Cocker

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  • “You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.” -Heston Blumenthal

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  • “It begins and ends with money. It’s absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It’s obscene.” -Kathleen Turner

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  • “If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.” -Henry A. Wallace

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  • “Any fool can make enough money to survive. It’s another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It’s a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.” -Robert Fulghum

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  • “Marriage, like money, is still with us and, like money, progressively devalued.” -Robert Graves

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  • “There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.” -Kesha

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  • “I’m not sure about the selling part, but I’ve always found that the things I’ve worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together.” -Steven Tyler

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  • “Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.” -Ryszard Kapuscinski

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  • “In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author… I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.” -Leslie Banks

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  • “I’ve seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can’t make any money. I tell you something… no one’s going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.” -Jimmy Dean

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  • “I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it’s business as usual. I don’t understand how they can’t see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take…

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  • “People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.” -Ralph Lauren

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  • “Wouldn’t it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?” -Elayne Boosler

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  • “The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don’t invest, their holding too much money. We haven’t heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody’s afraid of the government and there’s no need soft peddling it, it’s the truth. It is the truth.” -Steve…

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  • “I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.” -Bob Woodward

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  • “The truth was you can’t continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can’t afford certain things. No, we can’t do certain things.” -Chris Christie

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  • “Some people feel that what we’re doing makes no sense, that it’s just a waste of money. But it’s working.” -Calvin Klein

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  • “If we’re going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.” -John Dingell

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  • “People don’t have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.” -Robert Mapplethorpe

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  • “If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.” -Albert Brooks

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  • “When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn’t seem like it’s any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.” -R. Lee Ermey

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  • “Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.” -Arthur Miller

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  • “I don’t believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you’ve changed because now you have money.” -Shaquille O’Neal

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  • “I don’t make decisions based on money.” -David Duchovny

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  • “When I was in N.W.A. and didn’t get paid all the money I was owed, that’s when the business side of showbiz hit me.” -Ice Cube

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  • “Organized labor, if they’re doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.” -Warren Beatty

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  • “I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It’s got the market. It’s got consumer confidence and it’s got banks throwing – I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.” -Jack Welch

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  • “My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ.” -Sinead O’Connor

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  • “It’s rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don’t operate that way.” -Jim Garrison

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  • “I don’t have more money. I won’t have more money than any of the candidates, even the Republican candidates. We know that already. But we are building this campaign team like I would build a business. And that is, we are building it so far with no debt.” -Herman Cain

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  • “What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.” -Lisa Bonet

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  • “People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.” -Ed Markey

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  • “Our public school system is our country’s biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.” -Phyllis Schlafly

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  • “Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.” -Guy Verhofstadt

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  • “We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.” -Peter Singer

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  • “I choose films for their artistic value. I don’t need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won’t take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.” -Brad Renfro

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  • “There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.” -Timothy Geithner

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  • “The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn’t produce money. Ideas produce money.” -Shimon Peres

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  • “Well, I needed the work – that’s the honest answer. I haven’t worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.” -Gary Oldman

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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.” -George Michael

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  • “I’m glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie.…

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  • “Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.” -Jules Renard

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  • “Money doesn’t buy class.” -Kiana Tom

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  • “I’m not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money.” -Marlee Matlin

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  • “I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, ‘I wish I had more money.’” -Gary Vaynerchuk

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  • “North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best.” -Michael Kors

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  • “There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.” -Quentin Crisp

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  • “That money talks, I’ll not deny, I heard it once: It said, ‘Goodbye’.” -Richard Armour

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  • “I remember thinking that I’d way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I’d way rather spend more time with them.” -Shaun White

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  • “It’s lovely to have money to give away – that’s the bonus of winning the Nobel.” -Doris Lessing

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  • “Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it’s crucial to make a living, that shouldn’t be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.” -Billy Joel

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  • “People aren’t going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.” -Philip Seymour Hoffman

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  • “To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.” -William F. Buckley, Jr.

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  • “You must spend money to make money.” -Plautus

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  • “Money is a good thing and it’s obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.” -Annie Lennox

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  • “The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I’m not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that’s for damn sure.” -Jon Bon Jovi

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  • “Things are done according to money these days.” -Shirley MacLaine

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  • “Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.” -Moshe Dayan

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  • “For industry to settle in a country, you first need electricity for electricity, you need some trained workers for trained workers, you need some schools for schools you need some money for money, you need some industry.” -Evan Davis

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  • “A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.” -Jonathan Sacks

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  • “If the money’s right, I’ll do a film.” -Oliver Reed

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  • “You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.” -Jello Biafra

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  • “I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if…

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  • “So, my happiness doesn’t come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.” -Nicki Minaj

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  • “Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.”…

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  • “I know where I’m putting my money.” -Marc Andreessen

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  • “While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.” -Samuel Dash

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  • “Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.” -Charles Mackay

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  • “I don’t even know what sound is, much less what it’s for. It isn’t to make money that’s for sure. I’ve never made any.” -Don Van Vliet

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  • “I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.” -Kay Bailey Hutchison

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  • “People don’t have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It’s a dreadfully unjust world.” -Louisa May Alcott

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  • “Financially, I’ve lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.” -Jack Nicholson

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  • “I don’t think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they’re black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That’s what we’re upset about.” -Toni Morrison

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  • “I’m a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I’m making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.” -Glenn Beck

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  • “First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I’m other things… But I didn’t play drums to make money.” -Ringo Starr

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  • “If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.” -Neal Boortz

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  • “I never viewed money as being ‘my money’ I always saw it as ‘the money.’ It’s a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.” -Louis C. K.

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  • “I’ve had people ask me in interviews what it’s like to have money, but that’s not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.” -Beth Ditto

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  • “The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.” -Hayden Fry

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  • “I don’t know what your childhood was like, but we didn’t have much money. We’d go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.” -Robert Redford

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  • “A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.” -Edward Sapir

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  • “Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.” -J. Edgar Hoover

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  • “Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.” -Bono

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  • “Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.” -J. D. Salinger

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  • “To make the most of your money, I recommend sticking with mutual funds that don’t charge a commission when you buy or sell.” -Suze Orman

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  • “The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.” -Yoko Ono

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  • “Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don’t meet.” -Ang Lee

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  • “I think I’m actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.” -Roland Gift

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  • “I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of ‘student-athletes.’ I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don’t believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that’s another story.” -Susan Orlean

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  • “What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.” -George Leigh Mallory

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  • “Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.” -Ralph Nader

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  • “In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.” -Linus Torvalds

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  • “I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.” -Jim Cramer

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  • “Three groups spend other people’s money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.” -Dick Armey

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  • “Always remember, money isn’t everything – but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.” -Earl Wilson

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  • “I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn’t make any difference what the interest rate is. They’re not – they’re not going to loan the money because they can’t make any money for one thing plus the cost of compliance.” -Rick Perry

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  • “Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.” -Eric Butterworth

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  • “Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.” -Nicolas Chamfort

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  • “There’s so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn’t take money. It doesn’t take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.” -Debi Mazar

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  • “A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine’s a business today. It’s a business.” -Jack Kevorkian

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  • “False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.” -Joseph de Maistre

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  • “If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.” -Henry Fielding

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  • “The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.” -Paul Stanley

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  • “Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.” -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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  • “You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.” -Thomas Wolfe

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  • “Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don’t pay their taxes.” -Georgios A. Papandreou

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  • “It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.” -George Horace Lorimer

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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.” -John Podhoretz

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  • “I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.” -Catherine Deneuve

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