My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest amount of money my literary agent had ever negotiated for a work of fiction. – Daniel Handler
They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money. – George Savile
You’ve got to have a focus. You just fight for money, you get hurt. You focus on the title, you’ll just naturally make money doing it. – George Foreman
I’d made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it’s not about a big pay check with me. – Macaulay Culkin
In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money’s infrastructure has become. – Douglas Coupland
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things. – Eric Butterworth
I think that there’s a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don’t have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often. – Danny Elfman
People always assume I don’t need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it’s always reported to be. – Daphne Guinness
After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world. – Dino De Laurentiis
I know it’s going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we’re in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money. – George W. Bush
In general in comedy, there are fewer people making a ton of money and a lot more people making a living. For me, the goal is just being able to make exactly the show I wanted to make. – Nick Kroll
Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools. – Maggie Gallagher
When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids’ agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money. – Daniel Bruhl
Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There’s something wrong with that. – Donna Brazile
All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I’m happier now than I’ve ever been but I still wish I had that money. – Dana Plato
My transactions are above board: I do not have money deposited in other accounts and have transparently declared all assets. My real wealth is, however, my experience as cofounder of Infosys and as Aadhar Chairman, which gave away 60,000 crore identity cards to people of India as promised. – Nandan Nilekani
My mom and I would make bracelets and necklaces, and I would sell it in the first, second, and third grades because that was my lunch money. – Nikki Reed
In 2008, people who invested in hedge funds needed capital badly, but many of the funds would not return their money. However, I gave money back to any investor who requested it. It was the bottom of the market and a pretty tough time. – Carl Icahn
What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother’s house. When my mother passed away, I wanted to buy it from the rest of my family and keep the house in the family. That was the only reason I even attempted writing for money. – Dorothea Benton Frank
It seems to be that more and more people are asking you to work for nothing on films, and that’s unfortunate because you have to make a living. On the other hand, I don’t do a better job because I get paid a lot of money. I’m never like, ‘I’m not going to work as hard because I’m not getting paid as much.’ – Matt Dillon
In the western world, you can go out, take a boat trip to the Caribbean and so forth, and buy good things with your own money. But the Russian people with rubles cannot do that. – Masatoshi Koshiba
There’s more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can’t imagine they’ll get it from these folks. – Gail Collins
Despite their good intentions, today’s businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives – to do good and make money simultaneously. – Cindy Gallop
Money is always the least of the problems. It is finding the right business or growing the right business. You can’t do that without the right people. – Christoffel Wiese
Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it. – David Lee Roth
Television is like speed chess, as you have no time and no money. It is like trying to play Grandmaster chess with a 20 minute timer. The rewards are great, though, as it moves faster and you get to see the finished results much quicker. – Dean Devlin
I like owning dirt. You know, I spent a lot of time broke when I moved to California. So deep in my soul is still this idea of being unemployed. To me, owning land means you could sell it at some point and have money. – George Clooney