Top 1200 Money Wasted Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Anyone who says that money cannot buy happiness has clearly never spent their money on pizza.

If I was a person that felt success is money, and for some people it is, I won't yuck someone's yum - if that's your thing, that's your thing. Go for it. Make as much money as you can. I don't care. Not my thing. My thing is something else. So I don't miss that. At all. Who needs it? How much money do you really need?

When I went to college, I met a new group of friends and looked back on my high-school experience and realized how much time I had wasted on trying to make myself something I wasn't.

You get the reality checks during the course of your adult life and your career, and you realize that as good as the money in boxing is, most of the time people most don't make Ray Leonard or Oscar De La Hoya money, even if you make very good money.

I don't begrudge anyone else for anything, but to me, I think the fans deserve to have a studio put money behind their product because when the fans put money into a project and it makes any sort of money, it goes back to the studio. I think that's a little shady.

If people associate you with the idea of loads of money, they in turn will give some of that money to you.

The buying power of clubs is very different. You can't sign players if you don't have money, and if there is no money, that's it. As a player, there's nothing you can do.

Truth is, I didn't know what the hell I was doing when I got out of Cal Arts. I think I wasted a lot of time not being bold enough, or still engaged in the questioning that you get into at school.

I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness.

I will be Shawn Kemp regardless of whether I have money or not. The only thing money does is show who you are.

I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money.

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.

Some say we play at PSG for the money but it's not the case. If a player plays for money, he'll go to China.

Most Americans agree that federal money, their tax money shouldn't be used to help pay for abortions.

Sometimes the way comes later, when I'm not working or thinking about it at all. When stories don't work, you try to convince yourself that all of that time and energy wasn't wasted, that it will make you a better writer, if nothing else.

Everyone wants more money, but if the motivation is money it's not going to work, if that's the only thing you want.

If I did a multiple-fight deal, I could probably get more money but it's not always about the money.

Some work hard to acquire money only to find in the end that money acquired them.

I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn't know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn't grab it in the way I would now.

I have heard some people saying that I continue to run for the sake of money. What is money to me? I have enough of it.

I was never motivated by money. I think above all else about the happiness of my family, regardless of money.

Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.

I came from nothing. We didn't have money, so I started work at 14 because I really needed the money.

I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.

The industry is all about money. It has nothing to do with talent and calibre. The star system is a money game.

I've got plenty of money, more money than I ever dreamed I would have. But I am not a billionaire.

...this time I didn't launch into my usual tirade. Was it a memory of Krishna, the cool silence with which he countered disagreement, that stopped me? I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy.

The only weapon I had was my dancing. With that I fought like a general without an army. If I could have saved all the energy I wasted on my struggle it would have sufficed me to cover a dozen ballets.

Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.

A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

I play this game not just because of the money, man. I play because one day I want to put on that Hall of Fame jacket. Also, I want a Super Bowl. The money is just going to come anyway. But if you're not happy, the money really doesn't mean anything.

When you struggle hard and lose money, you're a hero. When you start making money you become a capitalist swine.

I've always been bored with just making money. I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going. What money meant to me was that I was able to get money to do that for me.

When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity.

Who doesn't like money? I love money. Why not. My subject matter will change when I get to that point.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

I'm not oriented by money, to be honest. Everybody thinks we're in the music business for money all of the time. But that's not true for me.

The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers.

I'm serious about it, and I want to spend my money wise. I'm not going to throw away any money.

It's all about money, not freedom. If you think you're free, try going somewhere without money, okay?

As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look yourself in the eye.

I don't spoil myself on extravagant cars or spending money on jewelry. So I save a lot of the money I have.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

I've got to love the film, not the money. Because I know what it's like not to have money - you still survive.

Money has to be put in the way a club feels it should. If you put money in a new ballpark, that helps to generate revenue so you can spend more money. It should be spent to make the club's operations the best. That will help in the end, and it will mean enhanced payroll.

If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.

Money isn't everything, but it is when you start thinking about putting money away for your retirement days.

Natural beauty and wonder are priceless heirlooms which God has bestowed upon our nation. How shall we escape the contempt of the coming generation if we suffer this irreplaceable heritage to be wasted?

Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country.

I've made money from a young age but it's never taken away from my love of skateboarding. I don't just do this for money.

If you take the money away, a lot of the footballers would still be playing football. So, the money has nothing to do with it.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact how hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves.

Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.

Be clear about the purpose of money. Money is like health. It is necessary for survival but it is not what you live for.

The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him.

T20 is amazing, good entertainment; there's plenty of money involved and I'm all in for the importance of money in a sport and the players.

In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.

I try not to live my life thinking about money because money doesn't make me happy.