“There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.”
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“People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.”
“And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that.”
“'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.”
“I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.”
“The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.”
“For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.”
“I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.”
“Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.”
“Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.”
“Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.”
“Money just draws flies.”
“Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.”
“Things are done according to money these days.”
“Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.”
“For industry to settle in a country, you first need electricity for electricity, you need some trained workers for trained workers, you need some schools for schools you need some money for money, you need some industry.”
“A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.”
“If the money's right, I'll do a film.”
“You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.”
“I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.”
“I know where I'm putting my money.”
“Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.”
“I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.”
“I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.”