I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I’m not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.
Clint EastwoodWhen I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was – my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.
Matthew McConaugheyLet us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Mother TeresaTeamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Brian TracyNo man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Samuel JohnsonIt is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
William Makepeace ThackerayWhen the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
Jim CarreyPercentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.
Jeff BezosNow financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.
Noam ChomskyOf course, I do everything for money.
Christopher HitchensDon’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.
Taylor SwiftThe wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.
Robert GreeneI hold the door for the ladies – I’m a gent.
Mr. TWe are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
George Bernard ShawMoney, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.
James BaldwinTaxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
Terry PratchettThe problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.
Margaret ThatcherRiches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Francis BaconI absolutely believed when I was young because the Tooth Fairy was always good to me. The Tooth Fairy generally left me a dollar or two dollars and, as a kid, that was a lot of money.
Dwayne JohnsonDiscretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
Francis BaconAlthough a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
Charles DickensModern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert FrostThe only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
John D. RockefellerResolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Samuel JohnsonI mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.
Barack ObamaCampaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
Eleanor RooseveltIf a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
Warren BuffettIn today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.
Kanye WestThese capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.
Abraham LincolnWe want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.
Barack ObamaI don’t care about money.
Lady GagaA gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.
Dolly PartonPoliteness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn’t have many manners as we now know.
BonoDinner was made for eating, not for talking.
William Makepeace ThackerayToo many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.
Will RogersAmerica… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Hunter S. ThompsonCourtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Theodore RooseveltMy dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn’t believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.
Clint EastwoodI’m going to retain a lot of Microsoft’s stock.
Bill GatesIt’s vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.
Gordon RamsayLet me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
Herbert HooverWhen I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
Wayne DyerI want to be financially secure by the time I have kids.
Conor McGregorMy principles are more important than the money or my title.
Muhammad AliA 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 DostoevskyBeing willing to donate the taxpayers‘ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.
Thomas SowellMarkets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.
Noam ChomskyBad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I’m the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.
Robert KiyosakiIf you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
Thomas CarlyleThe one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That’s approaching evil.
Jeff BezosMoney ain’t everything.
Dolly PartonThe most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.
John D. RockefellerGive me five minutes with a person’s checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.
Billy GrahamHonesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.
Mark TwainMoney for me today does not really matter.
Jackie ChanMy family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.
Michelle ObamaAt my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.
Robert KiyosakiThere are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Samuel JohnsonA man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheYou lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.
J. K. Rowling