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.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

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

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.

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.

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

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

Money, 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.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

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.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

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

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

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

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

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.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

I’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

It was the money from ‚Star Wars‘ and ‚Jaws‘ that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

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.

What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

People from North India are generally known to be aggressive and emotional.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

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.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

I can analyze people’s intentions. Immediately. That’s just a warning. To everyone.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

I’ve rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

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

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.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

I’m always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.