One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

I’ve never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

We’ve never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

You don’t send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like ‚shooting an unarmed child,‘ when that ‚child‘ was beating him bloody.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

I’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

Money ain’t everything.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Let 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.

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

If someone attacks me, and they want to punch or kick me, I can just run away. They’re not holding onto me. I can get away from them.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn’t the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn’t have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I’d got now for an ‚adult‘ DW.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

Money does not change people, people change.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

When 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.

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.

These 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.

Money for me today does not really matter.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.