Quotes about "Money & Wealth"

You have to live in order to have something to write about - you get caught up in moviemaking and celebrities and money, and it's very intoxicating, but it doesn't give you what you need as a writer. You have to do something else for that. ”

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism. ”

There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information about enough products to enough people with enough speed. ”

Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back. ”

I was on the dole once. I loved it. It was only for a couple of years, when I was 20 or 21 and playing in a band. Back then, this was something young folk did - you got your rent paid, a little bit of money to live on, and you loafed around, wrote songs, rehearsed and dreamed of playing Wembley Stadium. ”

It has always been more expensive for the poor to borrow money. We see this in everything from mortgage rates to credit cards. ”

The first book I bought with my own money as a teenager was Martin Amis's 'Money.' You know that thing when you read a book and you think, 'I'm going to have to read every word ever written by this man.' ”

One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so. ”

All elections revolve around and are often resolved by who raises the most money. That's unfair. I'd like to see that process changed, but it seems once you win and get to Congress, that doesn't happen. ”

All my money is in a savings account. My dad has explained the stock market to me maybe 75 times. I still don't understand it. ”