Money Quotes

I never felt hard done by and never wanted for anything, but I grew up in a wealthy area where I saw people being handed things on a plate. So it made me want to earn some money and be able to buy things for myself.

The real reason to oppose increasing tax rates on the wealthy is that it's a good bet they could do more to help the economy if they keep their money rather than have their earnings confiscated by the government and spent on another round of stimulus.

Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son.

Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in.

In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home.

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.

Raising taxes doesn't create jobs, and this is a common sense thing. Washington doesn't get it. They believe if they take more money and send it to Washington, D.C. somehow they create wealth. It doesn't work.

It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going from job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.

There's way easier ways to make money, let's just put it that way.

There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail!

While prosperity is in some ways related to money, it is not caused by money.

I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.

Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.

When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.

Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that's the point. So in some ways, to me, it's a distinction without a difference.

In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either.

I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s.

Material comes all kinds of ways, and it's never a question of a lack of material or a lack of projects - I have tons of projects. The issue is to convince someone to give you the money. And it's a very different business than it was just 8 years ago.

I wouldn't mind spending a little more time and effort and money on good skin care. And I'm sure they'll come out with, as they are doing, with more and more treatments that are noninvasive and healthy ways to keep your face looking as good as it can.

I don't know if people understand that there are different ways to raise money for great causes.

There are three easy ways of losing money - racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain.

All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.

Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever.

I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

I never look at it like I'm wasting money when I'm buying gold.