I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight. – LL Cool J
Before the last Olympics, we had meat raffles at the local surf club to get petrol money to go to training, to help out with the bills. But I know there are a lot of athletes worse off and that all athletes, at some stage of their careers, have made sacrifices. – Ken Wallace
I’ve never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn’t made money with it. – Laurie Anderson
So when my film career took off, I always felt like I was trying to play catch-up because I hadn’t studied acting before. I didn’t know how to manage money or my career. When I look back, I think I was a little bit shell-shocked. – Lea Thompson
If I had all the money in the world, I don’t think I’d want to be in the studio for longer. – Lisa Hannigan
I remember the first time I received a cassette tape of a band called The Clash. I became an instant fan of the Clash and then bought their albums after that and went to their concerts and gave them my money… but I first got it for free. – Michael Moore
It is easy to be independent when you’ve got money. But to be independent when you haven’t got a thing, that’s the Lord’s test. – Mahalia Jackson
In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of people giving very small amounts of money through ticket sales and raffle prizes: yes, it’s much harder work than big donations, but I think it’s a more democratic and transparent way of fundraising. – Lucy Powell
It helps if you really enjoy your jobs. If you don’t, then just think about the money. – Lisa Nicole Carson
I grew up skateboarding; it was fun. I didn’t think about money, I didn’t know how much professional skateboarders made. I just knew that if I became a professional skateboarder, I would achieve a lot and get to travel and do these great things. – Jason Lee
Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee. – John Jay Hooker
I don’t wanna hear nobody complain that they’re getting paid all this money and people won’t leave them alone. It’s part of it. – Mark Wahlberg
The amount of work that a for-profit has to do to get real money is minimal compared to the amount of work it takes a non-profit to get even a very small grant. – Leila Janah
From 2002-2008, Planned Parenthood received $342 million in federal taxpayer money through Title X funding alone. With these funds, Planned Parenthood has provided women throughout the U.S. with important family planning and contraceptive services as well as screening for breast and cervical cancers for low-income women. – Lisa Murkowski
When you create something that is popular, when you create a solution, you’re an innovator, and you solve problems for people and they like what you have to offer, of course you automatically make money. – Kim Dotcom
Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts. – Jean-Francois Lyotard
Ultimately, if you can say that I’m a bad owner and we’re winning championships, I can live with that. But if we’re not making the playoffs and we’re spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I’m not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization. – Michael Jordan
It wasn’t until I went to college that I met the theatre people and began to admire them because they were learning a trade that was guaranteed to make money! – John Davidson
Work begets work. Just work. If you work, people will find out about you and want to work with you if you’re good. So work anywhere you can. That’s why I’ve changed my mind about these theatres where people work for free or have to pay money. I think it’s kind of terrible that they feel they have to, but you know what? They’re working. – John Carroll Lynch
The attraction in this city is money, from gambling. What you are if you work here is a shill. – Joe Williams
I don’t look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they’re trying to do and achieve. – Kevin McCloud
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money. – Margaret Thatcher
What I think is wrong is spending รด?9m of taxpayers’ money on one particular piece of one-sided propaganda. – Michael Gove
All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to deal with fame, money and playing so many roles, I lost myself. I said, ‘Who am I?’ And I wrote my first book to deal with that, ‘The Ragman’s Son.’ – Kirk Douglas
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. – Karl Marx
The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money. – Linda Chavez