Top 1200 Old Money Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

In short, the early receivers of the new money in this market chain of events gain at the expense of those who receive the money toward the end of the chain, and still worse losers are the people (e.g., those on fixed incomes such as annuities, interest, or pensions) who never receive the new money.

It is what you can do with your money that matters because money has no value in itself.

I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.

Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.

Niggas wit no money act like money isn't everything.

Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

I kinda came into my manhood, or what I thought was my adulthood, early. I had to show up, and I had to make sure I had gas money, food money, rent money, clothes money - everything was on me, startin' at that age, so that's what led me to start hustlin', that's what led me to start to try to find ways to fend for myself. And once I did that, I was full-time, bein' in the street, and, bein' in the street, it's cold. It's the way the streets operate, and you have to adapt to that.

Money can't replace friendship, I'd rather have no money than losing you.

I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.

I think money is pretty straightforward. Get some money in; pay off what you owe, the rest is yours.

My mom was paralyzed from polio at the age of 2, abandoned by her husband, left with a 2-year-old, a 6-year-old and a 10-year-old, and so, we were raising her as much as she was raising us.

I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless.

You know, in the old days, you might be able to slowly sort of build an audience for your work by publishing two, three novels before you hit it big. You know, now, there's much more of an emphasis in the publishing houses on making sure that every book makes money.

It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

Congress leaders will now come to offer you money. I suggest you take the money but don't vote for them.

You either master money, or, on some level, money masters you.

Money is an instrumentality of the profit motive and must be issued and backed only by private enterprisers. Economic and political perversities are inescapable while government is admitted to money power. Since all national governments have, up to the present, been money issuing powers we may justly attribute all the economic and political ills of mankind to this single error.

To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.

If you play well, then you make yourself a great name and the money comes on its own. You earn money for what you did.

I like the art of making money more than the money.

I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.

I'll tell ya, my wife and I, we don't think alike. She donates money to the homeless, and I donate money to the topless!

The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

But there was money before Citizens United, and there will be money after.

The avoidance of money is just as psychotic as being attached to money.

In money matters no relationship counts; money hardens all hearts.

Sometimes money isn't the determinant. But it sure as hell makes a huge difference. Nobody is saying "Well, thank God we don't need to raise money any longer." It's a very, very big deal to have money, and it is a very, very big deal to have more than your opponent.

I made my money in Iscar. I spend my money on the industrial parks.

In New York, the currency is money. You have money, and you get anonymity.

I'm always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.

I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.

My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.

I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks.

I would love to take an old space and restore it to exactly the way I want it. Like an old factory, just something with great bones and lots of character. I'd take an old house and flip it into something very modern inside, or the other way around.

As a biographer, I try to uncover the adventures and personalities behind each character I research. Once my character and I have reached an understanding, then I begin the detective work reading old books, old letters, old newspapers, and visiting the places where my subject lived. Often I turn up surprises, and of course, I pass them on.

I know Anbu Chezhiyan for 6 years. When I wanted to produce, I went and asked him for money. He was the one who gave money for Naan.

I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At the same time, money is capable of extraordinary corruption in every kind of relationship. I tried to see how and why, more and more, money is becoming a religion.

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

Don't get the idea that I've turned green. My business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot of money.

It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.... Let me give you a tip on men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it. Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the...bell of an approaching looter.

GDP simply measures the circulation of money in the economy, not whether or not the outcome of using that money is positive or negative.

I would love it if my films made a lot of money, and may I say that 'The Yards' is the only one that's lost money.

I do have limits on my money. I like calling my mom to ask, "Can I have that?" Because I know I can be spending my money more wisely.

Hey, come on, I've seen younger faces on money. Money.

The master race, for real, is money. Money can buy you anything.

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

So. You refuse my money, you serve me thirty-year-old Highland Park scotch, and we've been in the same room for approximately five minutes, yet none of my bones are broken. This leads me to believe that your back is against the wall and you desperately need me for something. I'm dying to know what that is.

A lot of the older pros - I won't name names - they need the money and are bitter about the money in modern football.

Even I run after money, but money is secondary for me. First comes the script and then my part in the movie.

People say money ain't nothing; money is basically everything.

I ain't mad ma, see you on ya bummy swag I'm in that money green Jag, lot of money bags

My family didn't have very much money, so ballet wasn't even on my radar; I just found it randomly when I was 13 at a Boys & Girls Club. We were practicing in a basketball court in gym clothes with some old socks on. Even though it terrified me at first, I found that I really liked it.

People look at me in many ways. They've said, 'The guy has no regard for money.' That is not true. I have had regard for money. It depends on who's saying that. Some people worship money as something you've got to have piled up in a big pile somewhere. I've only thought about money in one way, and that is to do something with it. I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it. I don't even want the dividends from the stock in the studio, because the government's going to take it away. I'd rather have that in (the company) working.

Old politicians, like old actors, revive in the limelight. The vacancy which afflicts them in private momentarily lifts when, oncemore, they feel the eyes of an audience upon them. Their old passion for holding the centre of the stage guides their uncertain footsteps to where the footlights shine, and summons up a wintry smile when the curtain rises.

I'm bout that fast money, money ain't got no patience. But if them boys come run like you on probation.

It’s not that I want money. It’s the fun of making money and watching it grow.

You have to move from just working for money to a world where money works for you.

[Justin Bieber]'s rich, right? Grammys are for music and not money. He's making a lot of money. He should be happy with that.

Money's an instrument. The Bible says money answereth all things.

You don't make any money being an artist. Writing and producing? You get your money from that. You live comfortable.