Money Quotes

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.

On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.

A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.

I think stimulus money is an absolute mistake.

The truth of the matter of is that stimulus money not only doesn't stimulate; it actually reduces output.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash - your own money.

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world.

Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.

If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.

When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties.

I'm involved in Project ALS which is trying to get money for stem cell research. That's one I've been pretty involved with because if you can cure that, you can cure so many other diseases.

I never minded George Steinbrenner spending obscene amounts of money to put the best product on the field.

I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners.

A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.

Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.

My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!

I love the feeling of having as close to a steady job as you can ever have as an actor. I'm not an extravagant spender, so when I work on a TV show for a season or do a bunch of episodes as a reoccurring, I try to spread the money that comes from that out so that I can do these movies that are important to me.

We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.

I've obviously made a very nice amount of money. I have a very nice lifestyle. I get to do what I love. Very few actors get to do that, and even fewer are lucky enough to work steadily for 24 years.

I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work.

Had I stayed longer in some primaries, I would have probably done better in states like Nevada, California, and New Mexico - but I ran out of the money after the second primary in New Hampshire.

I try to stay ahead of things, if you know what I mean. I take the money I make and reinvest it.

Right now we think that rates will stay low, that you'll be able to get a mortgage below seven percent and that's kicked off a refinance boom that's going to put more money in the pockets of consumers.

If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me.

Money is great, but it doesn't make your husband stay at home with you.

If I can't play for big money, I play for a little money. And if I can't play for a little money, I stay in bed that day.

Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.

Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.