Quotes about "Money & Wealth"

If we can get back to where I can earmark money to bring it home to Illinois... to make us a stronger economy, I'm going to continue to do it. ”

The fact is I tried for years to work with the financial industry on reasonable swipe fee reform, but the industry wouldn't have it. ”

When I played with Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings in Vegas, the guys used to go, 'Dick, cut it out, man! You're moving around too much on this stage. You're making us look bad!' ”

I had made a great deal of money, and I was proud of it. I was a capitalist. ”

One of the reasons the deficit got as big as it did, frankly, was because of the economic slowdown, the fall-off in deficits, the terrorist attacks. A significant chunk was taken out of the economy by what happened after the attacks of 9/11. ”

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing. ”

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing. ”

All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.' ”

The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money as during their active careers. ”

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. ”