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Money Quotes

If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

– Billy Sunday

A lot of people in this business are born with money or family connections.

– Greta Van Susteren

It is no secret that those of us in the Northwest believe the Administration’s proposal to drive up the cost of electricity in our region is not only misguided, but also will not achieve the intended goal of raising money for the treasury.

– Greg Walden

I’m not a writer because I want to make money. I’m a writer because I’m a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.

– Gregory Maguire

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.

– Gregory Bateson

In this business, you don’t have to be an architect or an engineer or a brick layer. But you have to understand how the money flows. That you can only understand if you’re on the site.

– Harry Triguboff

I can’t drive, so I don’t need a flash car, and I like living at home, so I don’t need a mansion. I’m sensible with money. It’s not why I act.

– Georgia Groome

Where there are no spectators, there is no sponsorship. Where there is no sponsorship, there is no money. Where there is no money, there are no officials with fingers in the pot. The lesson to be learnt from this is simple. If we want honest sport, we have to stop watching it.

– Howard Jacobson

When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

– Harold E. Varmus

The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it!

– Gunther Schuller

It’s hard not to chase the money. You sit at home when guys are out playing for a $6 million purse, and you know you’re going to drop back on the money list, so you end up playing when you don’t really want to.

– Graham DeLaet

We can’t go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, ‘Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,’ unless we can demonstrate that it is in America’s interest. I happen to think it is.

– Hillary Clinton

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

– Horace

My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important developmental steps. They have become sort of ‘public domain’ and something to be made money on. There’s no sense of self there, I’m sure of it.

– Genie Francis

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

– Henry Fielding

A film like ‘Good Night And Good Luck,’ you make that for $7 million because you know it’s a black-and-white film, and it’s not an easy sell. If you make it for $7 million, then everybody can have a chance to make a little bit of money, and you get to make the film you want to make.

– Grant Heslov

I hate when you go into a nice restaurant – someplace where you’re going to spend good money – and there are kids in there crying.

– Harland Williams

Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.

– Gavyn Davies

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

– H. L. Mencken

If I was a gold-digger, I would have a lot of money in my bank account. I’d be worth millions and millions.

– Heather Mills

I want to be a great player. I don’t want to play for the money. I don’t want to play for fame. I’d just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it’s football.

– Gaines Adams

It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.

– Hillary Clinton

Major labels didn’t start showing up really until they smelled money, and that’s all they’re ever going to be attracted to is money-that’s the business they’re in- making money.

– Ian MacKaye

The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn’t have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike.

– Guy Lafleur

Most of the big money people don’t know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.

– Harold Prince

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Sometimes people with strong ideology, whether left-wing or right-wing, refuse to do something simply because they believe it is wrong, when doing it actually benefits them. For some people, it’s not just about money and political power.

– Ha-Joon Chang

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

– Henry Ford

As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.

– Gordon Sinclair

If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile – but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries.

– Helen Clark

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