Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money. – Alexis Arguello
I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don’t make enough money. – Andrew Motion
The idea of confidence, of the emotions of the population, is an incredibly important one in economics. John Maynard Keynes called it ‘animal spirit.’ And if people are feeling generally good about the future, they’re more likely to spend money, to start new companies; companies are more likely to hire people, make investments. – Adam Davidson
Some libertarians say, ‘Well, if people work harder, they can make more money.’ But, you know, my mother is a nurse and I am a venture capitalist. I think no matter how great a nurse she is, she wouldn’t earn a one-thousandth of what I can make, if that. – Ben Horowitz
The truth was you can’t continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can’t afford certain things. No, we can’t do certain things. – Chris Christie
When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people. – Aung San Suu Kyi
When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year’s salary to ‘go pursue a dream.’ If you’re stupid, you panic and get another job. If you’re smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next. – Bruce Schneier
The truth of the matter of is that stimulus money not only doesn’t stimulate; it actually reduces output. – Arthur Laffer
I’m a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money, I bought my very first photograph: an Henri Cartier-Bresson. Then I bought a Robert Frank. – Annie Leibovitz
Back when Detroit was the head of auto manufacturing, it was clear where profits were created. Right? A car was made in Detroit. There was little argument that you could make that some of the money from that should be sent overseas to Ireland. – Charles Duhigg
I think even if I did the research mentioned above, it would be a total waste of money because if those people don’t believe in the testimonials, they won’t believe in the research at all. They would say that I made it all up. So why waste money? – Alex Chiu
Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly ‘clean’ politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad. – Aravind Adiga
I’m not an extravagant person. You don’t get a chance to spend money when you’re working on a TV show. – Aidan Turner
If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent. – Carl Karcher
There’s nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd. – Arlen Specter
It has become clear that the function of a private health insurance is to make as much money as possible. Every dollar not paid out in claims is another dollar made in profits for the company. – Bernie Sanders
MTV lets us do whatever we want. For me, there is freedom in serving an experienced client who knows what they want and has the money to do it. MTV is that for us. – Ben Nicholson
If you can take my tax money and assure me that it’ll go to the right purpose, that it will help the poor, then fine. But I’m not sure a lot of it does. In fact, I know a lot of it doesn’t. – Bill Bennett
Banks have a new image. Now you have ‘a friend,’ your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens? – Alan King
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. – Arthur Schopenhauer
I’m a socialist. I’m amazed at how the spirit of socialism is alive and well in New York. I had always thought I wouldn’t want to be here without a lot of money, but I was wrong about that. – Bertie Carvel