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
It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it? – Larry Hagman
A million dollars in the presidential election is a spit in the ocean. It’s not a lot of money. – Kenneth Langone
The super PACs have brought an element of fear into the equation. The fact that they can bring this money into the campaign, basically ambush you out of nowhere, and you’ll have no way to fight back. – John Sarbanes
It will be almost impossible for any other candidate to raise the money that the Clintons can raise. – John Catsimatidis
In my view, a philanthropist is anyone who gives anything – time, money, experience, skills or networks – in any amount, to create a better world. This is not how we once thought about philanthropy. The word used to conjure up something rather passive – sitting down and writing checks. – Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak – the highest I can be as an artist – I always want to be keeping my creative juices flowing, keeping money in the bank, putting my intellectual property out there. – Keri Hilson
I was a very bad accountant; I didn’t care about money, golf or discovering fraud. After about a year I was sacked; then I went into teacher training. – Joanne Harris
A deep cynicism is taking hold of the country, with more and more Americans convinced that big money calls the shots in Washington and that there is nothing that can be done about it. We must resist that conclusion and fight back on behalf of everyday citizens. Reform is possible, and it is imperative. – John Sarbanes
I have a very big phone book and a very long reach around the world. And I think – I don’t think, I know – that 95 percent of the people who I know who weren’t born into success who have become successful and done things that are different and made a lot of money and had a lot of excitement in their life are people who never hear the word ‘no.’ – Jerry Weintraub
If you go to an ATM for a hundred dollars and it keeps spitting twenties, when would you walk away? When it wasn’t spitting twenties no more. As long as you can take the money out, you’d stay there. That’s what the wrestling business is like. – Kevin Nash
A lot of people are happy to give money to charities but are wary of giving through taxes because they feel it doesn’t produce any value. – Leila Janah
I don’t like to spend money when I’m traveling. I like to go places like Hawaii and not spend money. I splurge on time. – Jonny Weston
I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn’t really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer. – Keenen Ivory Wayans
When I started, I was pretty sure I was going to be writing some goofy little wizard novels that might make me some part-time money and would hopefully lead to something I could do better. – Jim Butcher
The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life. – Molly Ivins
Right after 9/11, I mean, every agency can give their own gradation, but a nice, popular rule of thumb is everybody doubled down. I ended up in the NSA with about twice as much money as I had prior to 9/11. – Michael Hayden
I basically left Texas with no money. I was making $3.50 working in some mall, so I didn’t have a lot of cash. I took $1,000 and headed to California. Along the way I stopped in Vegas because I had always wanted to see Caesar’s Palace. So I stopped there and won $2,500 on a slot machine! It was amazing. – Krista Allen
I didn’t have money to eat when I was 21. When I was short on cash, I would sometimes scam food from fast food places. I’d go into fast food chains and pretend I was from a movie studio, tell them they didn’t send us the right order and demand they fix it. I’ve tried to make that right whenever I could. – Jim Parrack
The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough? – Joe Wurzelbacher
If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than putting it in any bank as a deposit or putting it anywhere else, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government. – Jim Cooper
They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose. – Janis Karpinski
I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren’t, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I’ve been able to go on and do plays and films. – Jeremy Brett
There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary, if it was on 16mm. But, with the magic of digital. – Lloyd Kaufman
I think my legacy will be in what most people don’t like about me: my style – the separation between judge and lawyers, judge and politics, the real independence of the judiciary from the executive, from the legislative, from money. I’m criticized in Brazil because of that. In the end, I hope to prevail. – Joaquim Barbosa
I never minded George Steinbrenner spending obscene amounts of money to put the best product on the field. – Jay Mohr
I think it’s way harder when you have success, ’cause people tend to not treat you the same or look at you the same because they see the success or the money you make. – Meek Mill