Money Quotes

Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.
– Robert Rodriguez
Even though I can make my own budgets, I always ask for less money than we need so that you have to be more creative, you have to strip it down.
– Robert Rodriguez
It's pretty intriguing what you learn. Twelve minutes of three-dimensional footage cost so much money. Like, $60 million. Your imagination runs wild. You have all these possibilities. You can do anything with film and make anything come to life.
– Michelle Rodriguez
A fool and his money are soon elected.
– Will Rogers
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
– Will Rogers
If Nevadans define financial success only in terms of how much money they make and accumulate before they draw their last breath, then I tell you our higher education system is condemned to mediocrity.
– James E. Rogers
Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
– Jim Rohn
There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.
– Pete Rose
With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
– Pete Rose
What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
– Harold Rosenberg
Our volunteer fire departments know their needs better than Washington, D.C. They need more flexibility on spending grant money from FEMA and Homeland Security.
– Mike Ross
I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.
– David Lee Roth
I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.
– Tim Roth
I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.
– Tim Roth
PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts.
– Paul Ryan
Money is pyramiding. Religion is pyramiding. Education is pyramiding. The environment is pyramiding. The pyramid of progress has destroyed the marbles circle, it's destroyed the family circle.
– Gene Ray
We're sorry you didn't win any money but you will be receiving a broken clavicle and a jar of olives courtesy of Match Game.
– Gene Rayburn
I know nothing about racing and any money I put on a horse is a sort of insurance policy to prevent it winning.
– Frank Richardson
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.
– Bobby Riggs
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
– Mary Roberts Rinehart
I have enjoyed the personal use of money; but I have gotten the greatest satisfaction from using it to advance my beliefs in human relations, human values.
– Winthrop Rockefeller
Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money.
– Jim Rogers
I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money.
– Emily Rossum
There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain.
– Baron Rothschild
Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.
– Mayer Amschel Rothschild
I got started in 1995, working in a group called The Cash Money Click.
– Ja Rule
You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
– Winona Ryder
One of the most important things is to learn to read music. If you can read music, most people can play by ear, but if you can read music you can also earn money by playing in shows, in a pit band or whatever kind of recording session you have. They have a chart in front of you and you can read it. You won't be one dimensional.
– Paul Taylor
I do not give money for just mere hopes.
– Terence
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
– Mother Teresa
I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.
– Bill Terry
No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.
– Bill Terry
I struggled... because my Mum and Dad didn't have any money. I had to borrow where I could for things like driving lessons.
– John Terry
Some of the money from the senior players goes to helping out the younger kids. It is from the players' pool, the fines for being late and so on. Some will go to something like the tsunami appeal and some to helping out young players.
– John Terry
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions - he had money, too.
– Margaret Thatcher
As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.
– Cal Thomas
People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
– Cal Thomas
Squeezing our money out of politicians is more difficult than squeezing blood from a turnip. To paraphrase an Oscar Hammerstein love song, they never let it go.
– Cal Thomas
If you give money, spend yourself with it.
– Henry David Thoreau
You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
– Lee Trevino
War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
– Ted Turner
The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
– Mark Twain
You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.
– Chuck Tanner
There is no greater joy under the sun than the joy of giving: giving of one's time, energy, talent, and money to help one's fellow man.
– William H. Taylor
When you get into that kind of studio money, there's a price on everything. And I haven't been willing to pay that price.
– Lili Taylor
Like having your own licence to print money.
– Roy Thomson
Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?
– Michael Torke
Money doesn't bring happiness, though it has been known to cause an occasional smile.
– Herb True
I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.
– Ivana Trump
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
– Morihei Ueshiba
The work is often deadly and boring, but it requires a keen intelligence, and the only way I can compete with large corporations is to treat my employees better, move them up faster, give them more money and put mirrors in the bathrooms.
– James R. Uffelman
Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.
– Louis Untermeyer
I can envision a small cottage somewhere, with a lot of writing paper, and a dog, and a fireplace and maybe enough money to give myself some Irish coffee now and then and entertain my two friends.
– Richard Van de Geer
My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.
– Andy Van Slyke
Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumours so little founded on truth.
– De la Vega
Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.
– Guy Verhofstadt
Resource-constrained environment are fancy Pentagon words that mean there isn't enough money to go around.
– John W. Vessey, Jr.
To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.
– W. J. Vogel
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
– Voltaire
The doves in this country and some of the media are the cause of fifty-some-odd-thousand Americans being killed and all that money being spent, and all that inflation.
– George C. Wallace
There is no accountability in soft money. None.
– Zack Wamp
I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!
– Andy Warhol
Now that I'm gettin' old enough to get some money, I'd like to have some money. I don't get much made, I need to conquer a big chunk of money. Not quit playin' but quit playin' so hard.
– Muddy Waters
There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues-the blues we used to have when we had no money.
– Muddy Waters
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in Old Maid; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
– Evelyn Waugh
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
– Orson Welles
When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.
– John Wesley
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
– Theodore H. White
Camerado, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?
– Walt Whitman
You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could.
– Tom Wilkinson
Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.
– Robin Williams
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.
– Ted Williams
I don't think she'll [Venus Williams] be around for a very long time. I doubt it will be a long career for her. She can make a lot more money out of tennis rather than in tennis.
– Richard Williams
I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
– Carl Wilson
The middlebrow is the man, or woman, of middlebred intelligence who ambles and saunters now on this side of the hedge, now on that, in pursuit of no single object, neither art itself nor life itself, but both mixed indistinguishably, and rather nastily, with money, fame, power, or prestige.
– Virginia Woolf
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above me designs synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats. The lady across the hall tried to rob a department store... with a pricing gun... She said, Give me all of the money in the vault, or I'm marking down everything in the store.
– Steven Wright
He was a multi-millionaire. Wanna know how he made all of his money? He designed the little diagrams that tell which way to put batteries in.
– Steven Wright
Some actors signed three-film deals but the money was so crap I was insulted so just signed for one. If they want me for a second they will have to up their rates.
– Zoe Wanamaker
Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
– Artemus Ward
The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.
– Jimmy Webb
Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.
– George Weiss
When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.
– Charlotte Whitton
Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money.
– Leon Wieseltier
I have had my fling at the title. I was champion for four years. And I want to assure you that they'll never have to give a benefit for me. I have invested the money I have made.
– Jess Willard
Sex is like money, golf and beer - even when it's bad, it's good.
– Jimmy Williams
Now you must take money quickly, or there will be many companies saying they do the same thing. You need to take the money and declare victory immediately. Then create a product.
– Ann Winblad
We in the South claim to be high-minded, gentlemanly, lordly fellows, who think nothing of money; and, therefore, we are poor.
– Henry A. Wise
I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.
– Vash Young
At the beginning of World War II, a fine young actor placed his whole career-work, money, popularity-on the altar of what he believed... Our country was at war. Very few cared what he said. He was accused, judged, vilified.
– Loretta Young
The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.
– Marguerite Young
Huge sums of money, administrative manipulation, have all been mustered to prevent the people from expressing their voice.
– Viktor Yushchenko
You know when there's a star, like in show business, the star has her name in lights on the marquee! Right? And the star gets the money because the people come to see the star, right? Well, I'm the star, and all of you are in the chorus.
– Babe Didrikson Zaharias
All you may need to be happy is love, but to survive you need money!
– Jason Zebehazy
Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.
– Renee Zellweger
Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye.
– Anonymous
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
– Anonymous
'Common sense is the guy that tells you that you ought to have your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in the grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up.
– Raymond Chandler
A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man's crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, planted at the base of Manhattan island with the Statue of Liberty as their sentry, and the Pentagon, a squat, concrete fort on the banks of the Potomac, are the sanctuaries of money and power that our enemies may imagine define us. But that assumes our faith rests on what we can buy and build, and that has never been America's true God.
– Nancy Gibbs