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.

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

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

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

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.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Money has a language of its own.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

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

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

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

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

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

The 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.

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

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

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

We have the best government that money can buy.

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

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

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

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

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

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

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

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

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

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

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.

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.

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.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

All fiction is about people, unless it’s about rabbits pretending to be people. It’s all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that’s what we call ‚the plot‘.

I don’t care about money.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

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 tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.

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.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

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

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

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

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

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