Money Quotes

People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

~ Ralph Lauren

A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.

~ Emil Zatopek

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

~ Walt Disney

Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.

~ Gloria Steinem

Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

~ Queen Rania Of Jordan

They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn't inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better - the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams.

~ Marco Rubio

Economics is not a science; it is a quasi-religion: part superstition, part mystique, part sentimentality. Bankers dream like other men, the only difference being that when their dreams turn to nightmares, we all lose sleep. There can be no trusting the muttering of any prelate when it comes to money.

~ Howard Jacobson

Understand and accept the cycles of money. The setbacks you may have today or next year will not keep you from financial freedom. If you hold on to your goals and dreams, you will get there.

~ Suze Orman

I always had dreams. I knew I wanted to have money to buy things at the flea market. That's worked out well.

~ Debi Mazar

Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.

~ Jerry Della Femina

I was always silly in high school. I used to always get in trouble because I was laughing. I've always thought I was funny but never thought I could use it to make money. In 1996, I decided I was going to use my humor to get on TV to make money.

~ Retta

Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?

~ John Kricfalusi

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

~ Rebecca Wells

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.

~ Ida Tarbell

The sinews of war are infinite money.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.

~ Kevin O'leary

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.

~ Arlen Specter

By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.

~ Gore Vidal

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

~ Fareed Zakaria

Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.

~ Bernie Sanders

I wouldn't want to go back over my life. I've done it all. I wouldn't have wanted to miss the Marine Corps. I wouldn't have wanted to miss the war. I wouldn't have missed college. Or playin' for the Colts. I got all the money I need. Five children. I got a truck. I have no regrets whatsoever.

~ Art Donovan

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.

~ Anacreon

I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid.

~ Newt Gingrich

For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.

~ Peter Jackson

If your startup is only in the development or idea stage, there is almost no better predictor of failure - I mean, utter failure, scorched-earth bankruptcy - than raising too much money in the first round.

~ Steve Jurvetson

I wouldn't call Loopt a failure. It didn't turn out like I wanted, for sure, but it was fun, I learned a lot, and I made enough money to start investing, which led me to my current job. I don't regret it at all.

~ Sam Altman

While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.

~ Fabrizio Moreira

The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.

~ Matt Taibbi

Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.

~ Dan Gilbert

Those on the downside of rising economic inequality generally do not want government policies that look like handouts. They typically do not want the government to make the tax system more progressive, to impose punishing taxes on the rich, in order to give the money to them. Redistribution feels demeaning. It feels like being labeled a failure.

~ Robert J. Shiller

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

~ Robert Harris

My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it.

~ Peter Ackroyd

I think that Obama's failure to reestablish the rule of law in money matters is the most damaging thing that he's done - and perhaps the most damaging thing that has happened in American politics in my lifetime. Because once the rule of law is absent in money matters, then anything really goes in politics.

~ James Howard Kunstler

There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.

~ Patrick Stump

If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to keep going, to throw more money behind it, to throw more emotional energy behind it... that's a real problem.

~ Tim Harford

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

~ Victor Kiam

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

~ Satchel Paige

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

~ Kinky Friedman

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

~ Mother Teresa

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.

~ Lionel Messi