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

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

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.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

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.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

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

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Money ain’t everything.

Money’s important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don’t have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

From 1945 to 1974, the Western world – including America – was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business.

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.

You make more money if you’re generous.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

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

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

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

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

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

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’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

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

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

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers‘ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

I’m filthy rich!

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

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.

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

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

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

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.

In 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.

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

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.