When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment. – Fred Wilson
People should decide ‘are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?’ I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money – they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. – Felix Baumgartner
The Stones don’t really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They’re not like a group that’s disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They’ve always been there. – Mick Taylor
It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success. – George Washington Carver
My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages. – David Korten
When there wasn’t any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset. – Neil Abercrombie
I use a credit card for everything – and I choose one of the ones which gives you money back. – Frank Abagnale
I love working with the Farrelly brothers. I’m a big fan and feel very lucky to have gotten to work with them a few times. One thing that I learned while working with them is that you have to keep your cell phone off when filming scenes, or you owe them a lot of money! – Carly Craig
But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That’s inevitable. Where there’s money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat. – David Millar
Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you. – Etel Adnan
The Arab nations must be on our side. And if we catch them financing, if they funnel money to IS, that’s when sanctions and other actions have to kick in. – Michael T. Flynn
I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it’s the greatest country in the world. – Dan Rosensweig
There were certain people who were out to get me. I know who those people were. They exist, believe me. They know that I know. They spent millions of dollars in order to try to get rid of me. I’m happy they lost most of their money. – Ehud Olmert
I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn’t going to get a raise. – Curt Flood
What SAT tutoring does is it invisibly alters the admissions pool so a school could try to be as egalitarian as they can, but if a student is SAT-tutored, and their score goes up 200 points in a year, and the college admissions committee has no idea that the student got tutored, all of a sudden it’s shifting the pool back toward old money. – Eliot Schrefer
My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant. – Dolores Huerta
You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well. – Felix Dennis
Woody Allen would go for seven years without a movie and then make one that makes no money. – Edward Burns
Money is the most important thing because there might be a time when you have no label behind you and you have to carry yourself. Money is the only thing that can shield you. – French Montana
It’s impossible to change the social without changing the personal – you have to put your money where your mouth is. And if you’re not making those challenges at home, it’s unlikely you’ll make them in a larger setting. – Carrie Mae Weems
The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women. – Marguerite Young
Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money. – Michael Enzi
Bank failures are caused by depositors who don’t deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement. – Dan Quayle