Money Quotes

People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.

My top priority will be to secure maximum value for money in aid through greater transparency, rigorous independent evaluation and an unremitting focus on results.

There is a legitimate role for development education in the UK, but I do not believe these projects give the taxpayer value for money.

The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money as during their active careers.

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money; it's my time.

To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.

There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world.

Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.

The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.

You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done.

I take more jobs when I need more money, if I'm investing in films. I take fewer when I don't. Or if something really good comes along, I usually find a way to do a good job on it in the time that I've got.

If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do.

Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.

When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. And it is never a job from nine to five.

I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films.

I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.

Many scammers are only using personal checks for payment because they can take the money and run.

I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.

We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era where the South was changing.

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying.

Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.