No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and run. – Mitchell Zuckoff
At first, we couldn’t be establishment, because we didn’t have any money. We were guerrilla marketers, and we still are, a little bit. But, as we became No. 1 in our industry, we’ve had to modify our culture and become a bit more planned. – Phil Knight
If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that. – Michele Bachmann
After ‘Chandni Bar’ there was a shutdown of such bars in Mumbai. After ‘Page 3’ people started avoiding such events. ‘Traffic Signal’ exposed the money flow through the mafia. I’m not apologetic about the brutal truth in my films. Almost 70% of my films are based on reality, and 30% I fictionalize or change to suit my film. – Madhur Bhandarkar
Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused. – Maggie Gallagher
There is no more reason to believe that Bitcoin will stand the test of time than that governments will protect the value of government-created money, although Bitcoin is newer, and we always look at babies with hope. – Paul Singer
Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness. – Paulo Coelho
The Congo is very wealthy from oil money but is not paying its debts and at the same time is applying for special status at the World Bank. That’s shocking and disingenuous. – Paul Singer
The post-crisis perception, at least in the media, appears to be one of Americans being held down by Wall Street, by big companies in the private sector, and by the wealthy. Capitalism is on trial. I see it a little differently. If a lender offers me free money, I do not have to take it. – Michael Burry
It’s called show business for a reason. The theater owners want to make money, and understandably so. – Nia Vardalos
I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money. – Matthew Modine
The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent. – Matt Blunt
My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money’s come, nothing’s changed. – Nick D’Aloisio
Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town. – Michael Ian Black
Money’s not important to me. Movie star acknowledgement is not important to me. I don’t want to be a big studio actress. I don’t want to be in the limelight. – Moira Kelly
I don’t want retired schoolteachers or any other good Americans to be duped by fraudulent organizations into giving money, thinking it is going to go to disabled vets, when in fact it’s not at all. It’s going in to pad the pockets of some scam artists. I want to stop this stuff. – Max Baucus
Out of the bitter experiences of the panic of 1819 emerged the beginnings of the Jacksonian movement, dedicated to hard money, the eradication of fractional reserve banking in general, and of the Bank of the United States in particular. – Murray Rothbard
If there is a public perception at all, they see the producer as a big old guy who smokes a cigar and has lots of money and lots of power. That’s not what a producer is and, if it ever was what a producer was, it certainly hasn’t been for a long time. – Marshall Herskovitz
I’m not very bright about money. I’m not domestic either. If I don’t learn how to cook, maybe I won’t have to. – Natalie Wood
We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children’s life. It may save someone you love. And it’s very important. – Jim Valvano
I love to give money away. I don’t know if it makes my children and grandchildren all that happy. – Jon Huntsman, Sr.
I really love the independent movies and I just think that sometimes when they throw a lot of money into it and a lot of special effects and a lot of stunts that you lose the connection, the human connection and I personally love movies that are about the human connection. – Jane Seymour
I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college. – Joel Osteen
The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable regions, which cupidity or the love of money alone would induce man to venture into. Where can I now go and find nature undisturbed? – John James Audubon