Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state.
Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.
There is no money in the world that would compensate me for writing a lousy book.
If you've got an industry where you've got massive investment, it doesn't matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.
To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.
That would be the biggest shake-up Washington ever had, if big money didn't dictate who the candidates were and who got elected.
I think when you start talking about money, it stops the whole creative process for me.
Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
I tried all my life to make housing affordable. The more affordable the house, the more money I make.
I realized how quickly you could eat up a lot of time and money if you weren't prepared.
The moment somebody is making money off the recipes, that's when you'll see digital rights management around it.
A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. It's a short letter - all she said was, 'Hey, since it's harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza.' I was like, 'Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home!'
When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.
The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.
How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.
So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.
Basically, movies come down to economics, and they're always too expensive. From a producer's point of view, an actor is either going to make him money or save him money.
What we need to do is replace the entire tax code. I do not think it makes sense to say, 'Let's just grab money from, quote, the wealthy'... The issue is the tax code's rotten and we should start truly over with a simple code that is fair and transparent.
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Talking about money is garish. It's tacky.
It's important to learn to say no. With tours and all of that stuff, there are so many aspects that go into it, it's easy to have so many people around you saying, 'Oh yes, yes, you can afford this, you can afford this,' and then all of the sudden you've spent $20 million on your stage, and you're like, 'Where's my money?'
It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.
Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.
I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV show I'd never have to worry about money and wouldn't have to do anything I didn't want to do.
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
I know that money speaks more loudly than need.
Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
Financing for 'Shotgun Stories' was initiated with money from close friends and family. This is where the money to go into production came from. After production, a company called 'Upload Films' came on board and provided post-production funds and services. In both instances, people were taking a gamble on us.
So that's why I said, if you look at the average, you would see the money New York got this year was in line with the average across the prior three years and substantially more, by a country mile, than the money given to any other city.
I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His money for Him, for the poor people, the lost kids. I just love everybody.
If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?
If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.
