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Money Quotes

I’ve never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It’s never been part of my psyche.

– Richard O’Brien

Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?

– Orison Swett Marden

I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It’s a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they’re losing money.

– Reggie Jackson

Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn’t money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it’s not the end.

– Robert Redford

But then my mother, who’s a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us – he would make more money; therefore, we’d be able to get better educations.

– Patricia Richardson

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

– Samuel Butler

Taking a pay cut won’t demotivate me, not at all. It’s not about money in the first place. It’s about the job.

– Paul O’Grady

When I was 28, I made this film called ‘Drinking Buddies’ that I starred in and produced, and we improvised the entire thing, and it was a complete exercise in freedom of expression in making something for only the purpose of making it, not for recognition or money or anything else, and it’s still my favorite thing I’ve ever done.

– Olivia Wilde

My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, it’s only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.

– Robert Shaw

I want to create something like Sony. Not in terms of manufacturing products but creating something that is innovative, makes money, improves peoples’ lives.

– Richard Li

All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in ‘Sister Act’ and haven’t looked back since.

– Patina Miller

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

– Samuel Johnson

I made good money at WWE and traveled the world and interacted with my fans, but I missed a lot of family time. That really hits me.

– Rey Mysterio

Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters.

– Robin Tunney

There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money – and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

– Oswald Spengler

Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of ‘postmodern theatre’. So I said to my office, ‘This is ridiculous for me to go and speak about postmodern theatre when I don’t know what it means, but… they’re paying me a lot of money, so I’ll go.’

– Robert Wilson

The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.

– Rand Paul

People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India’s economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.

– P. Chidambaram

I don’t think politicians should be allowed to take money for their campaigns from outside interests.

– Ronda Rousey

The media are always on the lookout for possible sightings of D.B. Cooper, the man who parachuted from a plane with $200,000 in ransom money in November 1971. But the truth is, the mystery man wearing dark sunglasses almost certainly died during the jump, according to the FBI agents on the case at the time.

– Ronald Kessler

It’s not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

– Phil Bredesen

I’ve had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn’t much.

– R. Kelly

When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.

– Rafe Spall

Well, the problem of the federal government is that they print money and go in debt. That’s their national policy, Democrats and Republicans it doesn’t matter. And this is where I differ.

– Richard M. Daley

Since I finished on ‘The Mentalist,’ I didn’t need to be so near to the studio, so we decided to move a bit further out where you can get more house for your money, too. It definitely feels more like home.

– Owain Yeoman

This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.

– Oscar Robertson

I don’t think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won’t help you make a better painting.

– Peter Doig

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money… but city and state governments cannot.

– Robert Kiyosaki

Republican governors are more lunatic than they used to be – as attested by all the ones so eager to turn down free federal money to qualify more of their poor citizens for Medicaid under Obamacare. Meanwhile, some states have taken the money only to hoard it.

– Rick Perlstein

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

– Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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