“Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.”
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“Money doesn't buy class.”
“I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money.”
“I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.”
“There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.”
“That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.”
“Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.”
“I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'”
“I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.”
“It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.”
“You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.”
“Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.”
“People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.”
“Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.”
“I don't make decisions based on money.”
“My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ.”
“It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.”
“Human beings are much bigger than just making money.”
“People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.”
“Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.”
“Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.”
“There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.”
“I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.”
“I'm not sure about the selling part, but I've always found that the things I've worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together.”