I’ve been paying a lot of money in state income taxes, and I’ve been happy to do it, but when this last thing happened, this 50 percent increase in the tax rate, it was just too much. – Tom Golisano
In Montana, no one, including out-of-state corporate executives, has been excluded from spending money – or ‘speaking’ – in our elections. Any individual can contribute. All we require is that they use their own money, not corporate money that belongs to shareholders, and that they disclose who they are. – Steve Bullock
To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I’m kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I’d say, ‘Your mom would love a painting of you!’ A salesman! I’d hawk paintings. – Taylor Negron
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better. – Swami Vivekananda
You’d be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement against people in the money business, just a fact. – Steven Levitt
I thought I was going to be a theater actor. I moved to New York after college and did some plays and worked a lot. Once the realities of living as a theatrical actor hit me, I realized I wanted to start making a little bit of money and not have to bartend and work in theater. – Zachary Knighton
Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous. – T. Harv Eker
A budget matters to people who worry about protecting and saving critical programs like Medicare and Social Security. A budget matters to younger workers who fear that more and more money will be taken from their paychecks to fund another generation’s spending spree. – Susan Brooks
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser’s passion, not the thief s. – William Blake
When I was young, it wasn’t about the money, it wasn’t about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football. – Victor Cruz
I think being ambitious, successful, powerful, making a lot of money – I don’t care what color you are as a woman; it’s difficult to find a mate. I think the natural order is that men want to be providers. – Stephanie Allain
URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages. – Ziggy Marley
Part of the magic of a startup is the fear of death. You have only so much money in the bank, and if you don’t get to the right milestone before you run out, then the company goes under – it’s over. – Scott Weiss
A ‘no flex zone’ is an area where a lot of people can be themselves, live their life, get their money. – Swae Lee
The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don’t have or that you can’t really spare. – Suze Orman
Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria. – Victor Davis Hanson
You realise the responsibility of carrying a film on your shoulders when people are investing money in you and they recognise the hard work you have to put in. – Vir Das
I own about 300 pairs of shoes. When I start to go over 300, I have mini-sales from my closet and give the money to charity. It’s my way of recycling; I feel like I can give back to the universe. – Stacy London
The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there’s a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever. – Ted Nelson
I didn’t think any amount of money was worth something that would take away what you believed in or what you stood for. I didn’t want to do something my parents and daughter couldn’t be proud of. – Tippi Hedren
The budgets we work on in Congress are more than just fiscal documents; they are a reflection of our moral values as well. In choosing where to spend money, members of Congress choose what priorities they value. – Tim Walz
We don’t manage money for anyone else. We bear responsibility only for our own risks. – Suleyman Kerimov
I lived in Peckham for the first 12 years of my life and then my mum and dad decided they really didn’t want to bring up their children there. So they saved up money and bought a house in Plumstead, semi-detached, three bedrooms. – Tinie Tempah
I wish we could have state-of-the-art hospitals in every corner of the earth… but realistically, it’s going to be a while before that can happen. But we can immunise every kid on earth, and we can prevent these diseases. It’s only a matter of political will, a little bit of money and some systems to do it. – Seth Berkley
The economics of theater are painful. I still think that the theater community should be looking much more rigorously at how to let the playwright keep the money they make. – Theresa Rebeck
