“But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.”
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“Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.”
“Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.”
“There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.”
“A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.”
“I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.”
“I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.”
“Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don't cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That's going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.”
“The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.”
“If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.”
“Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.”
“All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.”
“No man's credit is as good as his money.”
“Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.”
“Of course, I do everything for money.”
“Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.”
“We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.”
“The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.”
“My Vegas act is how I make my money.”
“No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.”
“But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.”
“Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.”
“If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.”
“I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?”