You have to put money in its proper perspective. The way it is positioned in the culture is like it is the most important thing. But something is missing. – Jim Brown
You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like ‘I still go to the projects.’ I’m like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it’s so cool? – Jay-Z
I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby. – Justin Bieber
Hip-hop from the beginning has always been aspirational. It always broke that notion that an artist can’t think about money as well. Just so long as you separate the two and you’re not making music with business in mind. At some point, it has to be real when they touch it, when they listen to it. Something has to resonate with them that’s real. – Jay-Z
Right now I’m so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don’t know what I’d do with it. I don’t travel anymore. I don’t need anything, don’t want anything. I’d give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it. – Jack Vance
Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking from a common pot but not contributing to it. Just to insure that shirkers get what they deserve, we are prepared to make ourselves poorer. – James Surowiecki
The way we’re really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs. – Joe Lieberman
I mean it’s the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you’re out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It’s the most Darwinian, it’s beautiful, it’s brutal, it works. – Jim Cramer
Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it’s not really worthy of it. – James Spader
God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us. – Joel Osteen
A lot of people, most people who are working, they do it for money. And I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that. It so happens that I made a lot of money already, so I don’t have to worry that much about it. I wouldn’t fault anybody for doing it for the money, but it doesn’t interest me right now. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I’ve actually been able to make some money at a racetrack. – John Malkovich
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift… The hangover comes the day after. – Joyce Brothers
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
It’s wrong to rob banks, yeah, but is it right for banks to loan people money, knowing full well they can’t pay it back? – Jeff Bridges
It’s the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don’t know who they are. – Jim Cramer
I don’t make money doing my podcast. I’ve learned that people want to hire creative people who are already doing something when they approach them. – Julie Klausner
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them? – Jean Baudrillard
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course. – Helen Rowland
I give out similar advice all the time: Take a month to write down where your money is going. By the end, you’ll have a road map that tells you where you can cut back. – Jean Chatzky
Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come. – Greer Garson
I think that stocks have been this tremendous, tremendous equalizer for people in this country. Guys who can’t make a lot of money at their jobs have been able to make a lot of money in the stock market. – Jim Cramer
As a child, I wanted only two things – to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money. – Julie Burchill
So when I made some money, I didn’t have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money. – Jim Harrison
I went from a playing in a bar on a bar stool for free beer and tip money, where people weren’t paying attention to me, to now I’ve got their attention. It’s up to me to what I feed them with my music. It’s up to me how I do that. I’ve put a lot of thought into how great the songs are, and how I want people to perceive me. – Jake Owen
Every year of my working life, I have been fortunate enough to earn more money than I have spent. – Giles Andreae
I come from nothing. When I got a chance to make some money, I was like, ‘Man, I’m not ever going back.’ – Juicy J