Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
Karl MarxA fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere: therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbours of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating.
Lakhdar BrahimiI've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.
Ruth RendellRule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
Warren BuffettI can't take HIS money...
I can't print MY OWN money...
I have to work for money, why dont I just lay down and die?
Homer SimpsonRun for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
Ayn RandYou pays your money and you takes your choice. (vol.10, p.17, 1846)
PunchLabour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Adam SmithA liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
Carter GlassFilm is different for me now. If the money is good and it's not totally revolting, I'll do it.
Claire BloomI have more money now than I know what to do with.
Mark WahlbergI've never even met her (on the alleged Frankie who has made even more money re-releasing Eamon's song with different lyrics)
EamonWe had our chances to get our noses in front but I guess we didn't pay Paul enough money to throw the ball in the net! [on former keeper Paul Jones]
Dave JonesAdvertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Butler LeacockWhat most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
Margaret MitchellI wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.
Gennaro AnguiloYou can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
Winona RyderThere is some ill a-brewing towards my rest, For I did dream of money-bags tonight.
William ShakespeareWhen you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health.
J P DonleavyMoney isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
Zig ZiglarSkating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate, and willing to learn.
Robin CousinsIf you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours
Ray KrocThe consumer, so it is said, is the king... each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done
Paul A SamuelsonA man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even without any hope of doing it well.
Oliver HerfordIf I and Seb Coe were to go to see Jacques Rogge and the IOC and say 'we know we promised you an athletics stadium but we would much rather have West Ham in there as they would make more money out of it', they would simply say 'we have a contract and you can get lost'. The deal we made is that it's an athletics stadium and we have a legally-binding contract which is more like an international treaty.
Ken LivingstoneMy father said: 'You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals.'
J P GettyI really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it
Larry BirdMoney never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.
Eddie BarclayPeople are too myopic about making money and they get disappointed fast. If they haven't sold enough flowers they say: 'I'm out of here'.
Larry ChaseWhat horrifies me is people who've made money out of property or biscuit tins telling a class act who's managing their club who they should be signing
Niall QuinnPrestige is the shadow of money and power.
C Wright MillsThe money coming into the game [football] is incredible. But it is just the prune-juice effect - it comes in and goes out straight away. Agents run the game.
Alan SugarI'm investing in a company that has patented wallet technology that will deodorise currency. That way people won't have to deal with money that smells funny.
MobyMoney doesn't talk, it swears.
Bob DylanFinancial education needs to become a part of our national curriculum and scoring systems so that it’s not just the rich kids that learn about money... it’s all of us.
David BachApart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?
Matthew MacfadyenThe staff go around thinking 'If I can pick up that paperclip, we won't have to spend more money'.
Henry EngelhardtThe great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.
Ty CobbIt is not about money. It is about a player thinking he is bigger than this club. [on the Bellamy fiasco]
Freddy ShepherdNo young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money...
Orison Swett MardenYou can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
Lee TrevinoI didn't plan on rock-and-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.
Robby KriegerHe was a tall man with an astonishing and somehow elegant curvature of the spine, formed by an enlarged lower abdomen, which he carried in a stately and contented way, as if it contained money and securities
John CheeverIt is filthy money made on the back of the poorest people on the planet. Stick it where it belongs [on people selling Live8 tickets on eBay]
Bob GeldofI've seen the money agents make at Championship level and I can only imagine what they make at the top level
Mike NewellMoney can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Spike MilliganCan you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?
John GaySex is one of the most wholesome, beautiful and natural experiences that money can buy.
Steve MartinNobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
Edmund HillaryA genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go
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