Quotes about "Money & Wealth"

Car ownership as we know it will change. The promise of car ownership of the past, the freedom of open roads... the reality has been more of a burden. ”

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one. ”

When I was a kid I got so much help from the Church. When I was a kid, our family was so poor they couldn't afford me to go to school, so there was an American family that send the money to the church to support my school fees. ”

If we know there is enough money in there for nine or ten months, we won't worry too much. They can come back and get more-not all they want, but a large piece of it. So you always have the supplemental as a safety valve. ”

Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it. ”

Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart. ”

I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries. ”

I think I'm probably the only person that, when the parents lent me money to make the movie, they wished I had not paid them back. They could have said 'No,' and it would have ended, and I would have gotten a real job. ”

My father was horrified by my movies, yet he lent me the money to make the early ones. And I paid him back with interest. ”

Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses. ”