Money Quotes

I do not understand where the backing of Bitcoin is coming from. There is no fundamental issue of capabilities of repaying it in anything which is universally acceptable, which is either intrinsic value of the currency or the credit or trust of the individual who is issuing the money, whether it's a government or an individual.

~ Alan Greenspan

Perhaps the CDC should quit spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening, and massage therapy and direct that money to where it's appropriate in protecting the health of the American people.

~ Cory Gardner

The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.

~ Imelda Marcos

The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When you're in a beauty parlor in Harlem next to abandoned buildings and somebody's paying five grand for a weave, that's a bit much.

~ Chris Rock

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

~ Lana Turner

I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.

~ Bob Hope

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

~ Ogden Nash

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

~ Florenz Ziegfeld

Unfortunately, sometimes the fans forget who puts the money and passion into the club. It's funny, but when you win, it's the coach and the players who are responsible, but when you lose, it's the owner's fault; but that's football.

~ Andrea Della Valle

To make extra money, my parents would sell eggs and chickens. I was very little. I remember a chicken's head being chopped off with the chicken running around. I wasn't sure if my imagination was running away with me or if it really happened. It really happened.

~ Michael Keaton

Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.

~ Paloma Faith

I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you don't really need much money, and if you've got lots of money then you won't bother with much imagination.

~ Alan Moore

For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

~ Pete Hamill

You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can't have imagination without surrendering yourself to an idea that you want to create something of value to other human beings.

~ James Altucher

You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.

~ Amy Sedaris

There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money.

~ Kevin Mccloud

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

~ Dirk Benedict

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

~ Will Rogers

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

~ Voltaire

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

~ Ezra Pound

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

~ Dave Barry

One thing that took a while to really adjust to was, you do it for the the art, for the money, for being together and having a good time, but you do it for all those people out there who really care about the show. We are now talking about a show we did over 20 years ago.

~ Steve Kanaly

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

~ Jackie Kennedy

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

~ Laurie Anderson

A fool and his money are soon elected.

~ Will Rogers

But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times?

~ Terry Savage

I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.

~ Peter Singer

And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

~ Seth Godin

The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life.

~ Molly Ivins

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

~ Bill Bradley

But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.

~ Imran Khan

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

~ David Horsey

When dealing with American politics, you try to follow the money, and that's where it leads you. It doesn't take you to the electoral college or to Princeton. It takes you down the darker alleys of American life.

~ Roger Morris

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

~ Bill Gates

Money is the mother's milk of everything, and it certainly is the mother's milk of politics.

~ Rush Limbaugh

On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office.

~ Ted Cruz

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

~ Will Rogers

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

~ Lysander Spooner

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.

~ Christy Romano

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

~ Robert Byrd