All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.
The Spanish government, having run completely out of money, secretly sold the Pyrenees to China, and is now separated from France only by traffic cones.
Most people try to get rich by being cheap and the price for that is that you live cheap and there is so much money out there; why would you want to live cheap?
Printing up extra money - with no backing - used to be the sort of thing only counterfeiters did. Now it is done by the central bankers and Treasury Secretaries themselves. They don't apologize for it. They don't hang their heads and contemplate blowing their brains out. Instead, they're proud of it. . . announcing that they 'saved civilization,' or some such claptrap.
When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.
I grew up learning this stuff on the streets of New York. My brother and I used to play in the subway for money.
Bankers are just like everybody else, except richer.
Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor. ' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
You say that money isn't everything, well I'd like to see you live without it.
The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.
Money is good, love is wealth.
Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at night. We're the richest nation on Earth, with the highest number of imprisoned people in the world. Our drug addictions and child poverty are among the highest in the industrialized world. So don't ever confuse wealth or fame with character.
Get your money and as long as nobody is stepping on my wad then we're good.
Whether one has wealth or not, no treasure exceeds the one called life.
We are not limited by money, but rather by the poverty of our own dreams.
Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use for their craft.
I’m not producing movies to make money
Tactics and strategies ought to be based on what the real world is, and we do not have the political power to do this. We're not about to shut the government down over the fact that we cannot, only controlling one house of Congress, tell the president that we're not going to fund any portion of [Obamacare]. Because we can't do that.
Don't emphasise money if you don't have much; be happy
Money can't buy life.