“Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.”
Money does not buy happiness, but the lack of it can buy a lot of misery. These quotes explore wealth, poverty, generosity, greed, financial wisdom, and the uncomfortable truth that how you spend your money reveals what you actually value.
“There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.”
“Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.”
“If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.”
“I don't care about money.”
“You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.”
“When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.”
“The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.”
“Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.”
“I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.”
“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.”
“President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!”
“When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids.”
“I don't come from money.”
“Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.”
“Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.”
“Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.”