Quotes about "Money & Wealth"

I had a basic plan for my life. The plan was - 20s: make money; 30s: have family; and 40s: run for something and do politics. When I retired, I wanted to be a teacher. ”

The first thing I learned is that campaigns are about money. I had this romantic idea that campaigns were about law and debates and so forth, which is just not true. It's about money. ”

People think of taxes as money just being robbed from you. They don't consider the benefits of paying taxes. The benefits that they get and also the benefit of just being a part of a large group of people: a town, or a city, or a country, or a society that allegedly should stand together and all try to help each other. ”

It's not about the money. This is about Terri. It's not about the Schindlers, it's not about the legislators, it's not about me, it's about what Terri Schiavo wanted. ”

If you pay a child a dollar to read a book, as some schools have tried, you not only create an expectation that reading makes you money, you also run the risk of depriving the child for ever of the value of it. Markets are not innocent. ”

I am fortunate to have enough money not to have to worry about the necessities of life. Beyond that, I try to think about money as little as possible. ”

There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there. ”

Jay Z doesn't care if he plays in Paris or Denver, but we do. We make more money in Paris. ”

No matter where the price of gas is, the consumer's still got to get out. They've still got to save their money to go see Tim McGraw. ”

We do a big business with our midsized-venue model. We don't need bands to be on the top-ten charts to make money. ”