People Quotes

I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.

~ Tyler Perry

I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interested in controlling you.

~ Dave Chappelle

There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.

~ Muddy Waters

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

~ Robert Scheer

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.

~ Mark Cuban

A lot of people, most people who are working, they do it for money. And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. It so happens that I made a lot of money already, so I don't have to worry that much about it. I wouldn't fault anybody for doing it for the money, but it doesn't interest me right now.

~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say 'their life' I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life.

~ Dave Chappelle

Very few people can afford to be poor.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.

~ Suze Orman

I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

~ Francis Ford Coppola

I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.

~ Muhammad Yunus

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

~ Robert Mapplethorpe

In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.

~ Carter G. Woodson

It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.

~ Merle Haggard

The American people do not want ambassadorships or any other position handed out to save a party money.

~ Darrell Issa

I think even if I did the research mentioned above, it would be a total waste of money because if those people don't believe in the testimonials, they won't believe in the research at all. They would say that I made it all up. So why waste money?

~ Alex Chiu

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

~ Joseph De Maistre

Those people are unabashedly ruthless as far as money is concerned.

~ Giovanni Ribisi

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

~ Arthur Rock

I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.

~ Richard J. Codey

Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.

~ David Packard

Business is other people's money.

~ Delphine De Girardin

People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?

~ John Simon

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that's the one thing people can't take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

~ Michelle Obama

Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.

~ Alex Tabarrok

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

~ Abraham Lincoln

I think people understand that if you're going to have a successful economy, you need people's potential to be realized. That means education. It means university education, sure, but it also means training, apprenticeships and various kinds of skills diplomas that we know are necessary.

~ Justin Trudeau

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

~ Zaha Hadid

Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.

~ Alexis Herman

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

~ Edmund Barton

The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue to get a deferment, you had to go to graduate school.

~ Robert Shapiro

My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties.

~ José Rizal

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

An educated people can be easily governed.

~ Frederick The Great

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

~ Milton Friedman

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

~ Angela Davis

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.

~ Daisaku Ikeda