939 private quotes tagged money

“The sinews of war are infinite money.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.” — Ayn Rand

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“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.” — Steve Jobs

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“Money is just the poor man's credit card.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.” — Samuel Butler

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“The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.” — Josh Billings

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“Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.” — Louis Farrakhan

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“I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.” — Elizabeth Warren

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“I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.” — David Bowie

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“All money is a matter of belief.” — Adam Smith

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“When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.” — Ice Cube

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“I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.” — Brad Renfro

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“Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.” — Greer Garson

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“Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.” — Suze Orman

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“I don't have more money. I won't have more money than any of the candidates, even the Republican candidates. We know that already. But we are building this campaign team like I would build a business. And that is, we are building it so far with no debt.” — Herman Cain

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“Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.” — Donald Trump

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“A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.” — Clarence Day

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“I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.” — Jimmy Dean

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“I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.” — Maria Callas

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“It doesn't matter about money having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.” — Billy Idol

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“Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.” — J. Paul Getty

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“Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.” — David Duchovny

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“The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.” — John D. Rockefeller

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“Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.” — William J. Clinton

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