It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Football is big business – you can’t get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

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

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Foreigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I’ve felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people’s lives better.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle… and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable – those billionaire reports are a joke.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Money for me today does not really matter.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

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.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

My 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.

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.

I got an album concept called ‚Exit Strategy,‘ that might be one of my last ones. It’s a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don’t wait till you’re five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.

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

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.

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 is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

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.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‚healthy‘ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations‘ economic health.