It's hard to have money in the bank and want something and then not get it.
I've always told my children that Americans will tell you pretty much anything, but that convention dictates that we don't like to talk money or politics.
I'm trying to make enough money where I can be financially independent and be able to go and just pursue that thing that everybody really needs, just pursue my family and the cause of my family.
I had a pursuit different from others because they all came from downtown areas with money, but I didn't have any. All I wanted is to change my destiny with my own efforts.
I do think that people outside the fashion industry imagine that being a model is what you might call quick, easy money, but it can be very lonely - you have to be quite tough. It's also very physically demanding.
Science explains what nature is doing; money often explains what we're doing.
Business money is limitless.
The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending.
I'm an introspective guy when there's money in it.
I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.
I'm not interested in defending the position of those who already have money, power and privilege.
Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it.
The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.
No money in this world could convince me to play for Liverpool. That's not a lack of respect for Liverpool supporters or the football club. It's respect for the Everton supporters. You just can't do that. It goes against everything that I stand for. No chance.
I was tall and skinny, and at 15, I was approached to model. I figured that models got to travel, and it became my ticket to travel so much so that if an agency could not fly me to another country, I would fly on my cost so that I could see that country and also make some money.
My parents never really wanted me to be a musician at all, because in Peru you don't earn any money that way. But when they realised it was genuinely what I wanted to do, they supported me always.
When you create something that is popular, when you create a solution, you're an innovator, and you solve problems for people and they like what you have to offer, of course you automatically make money.
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.
I think, when you reach the top level, it is less about the money itself; it is important only because the level of earning shows the importance of the player or the manager. I don't think people want to have the money just to spend it. It is a reflection of your importance in football.
My fat never made me less money.
Ajax was spending too much money; they were buying players that were too expensive. If you get 100 per cent, you can't spend 120 per cent. It's quite easy.
I don't make money doing my podcast. I've learned that people want to hire creative people who are already doing something when they approach them.
I don't make any money.
Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
If my film doesn't make money, it means people didn't go watch it. So it doesn't matter then that the critics loved it.
I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.
I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.
Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.
Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that's important to me.
Every minute you spend looking through clutter, wondering where you put this or that, being unable to focus because you're not organized costs you: time you could have spent with family or friends, time you could have been productive around the house, time you could have been making money.
I never turned a part down when they offered me money.
Money is just something to be circulated.
