Money Quotes

I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.

Susan Orlean

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

Jules Renard

The mind is the strongest tool we have to help us secure the riches within the universe.

Stephen Richards

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Herbert N. Casson

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

Theodore White

I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

Francis Ford Coppola

Acknowledgement is possession. When you acknowledge, think or have conviction in something, it actually will come true.

Stephen Richards

For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money.

George Orwell

I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.

Sergei Bubka

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

Ronald Reagan

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Larry Bird

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.

Tom Hopkins

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.

Jerry Saltz

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Coco Chanel

I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.

Heidi Klum

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

I don't like begging money from producers.

David Byrne

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi