Quotes about "Money & Wealth"

The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life. ”

In most legislatures, punctilious attention to correct usage is considered elitist. The word 'government,' for example, is normally pronounced 'gummint'; bureaucracy is 'bureaucacy'; fiscal comes out 'physical,' and one moves not to suspend the rules, but to 'suppend.' ”

Those who think of freedom in this country as one long, broad path leading ever onward and upward are dead damned wrong. ”

Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced. ”

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear. ”

The trouble with capitalism as a system is that only those who have or can get capital can make it work for them, and that leaves out damn near all of us. ”

The first time I made any money, I was 27. I went to Bergdorf's looking like a proper guttersnipe and bought a pair of Louboutins. I'd wear them and an old ink-stained kimono and make my drawings and feel indomitable. ”

When I was making the most money at the top of my game, driving Bentleys and all that, I felt so existentially empty. ”

You can tell a lot about a man's character by watching him win or lose money. ”

Money is the great equalizer. ”