3 December 2020 Paul Auster All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn’t need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
3 December 2020 Marian Wright Edelman We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
3 December 2020 Ken Venturi Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.
3 December 2020 Demetri Martin I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, ‘Looks like you’re writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you’ll get more money.’
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
3 December 2020 William F. Buckley, Jr. To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.
3 December 2020 Gary Vaynerchuk I’m concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it’s the worst day of your life.
3 December 2020 Carly Fiorina Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
3 December 2020 Louisa May Alcott Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
3 December 2020 Spike Milligan Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
3 December 2020 Arthur Laffer And you can’t have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can’t be done.
3 December 2020 Zig Ziglar Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.
3 December 2020 Joseph Campbell I think the person who takes a job in order to live – that is to say, for the money – has turned himself into a slave.
3 December 2020 Lysander Spooner The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
3 December 2020 Kevin Costner Money isn’t a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
3 December 2020 Francis Ford Coppola I was never sloppy with other people’s money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.
3 December 2020 Ziggy Marley The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It’s about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
3 December 2020 Phyllis Diller There’s so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
3 December 2020 David Ogden Stiers Because I don’t take money, I’ll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
3 December 2020 Moliere Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
