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“Although this money is not a grant but a revolving fund, it is intended to assist the 39% of Ugandans who are actively poor, not the wealthy. However, those receiving the funds must ensure they use it responsibly and repay it, so it can continue to benefit many others.”
Irene Linda Mugisha (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“THE INTERNATIONAL PRIMATE PROTECTION LEAGUE. This came, usual thing asking for money. Poor Archbishops, I thought, feeling the pinch. But it turned out to be monkeys.”
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915–2011) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter dated 19 March 1979
“It's easy to beat up poor, desperate people. Finding the money to do what they promised is difficult, and they are unable to do so. The government has taken out its frustration on the easy target: the weak.”
Massimo D'Alema (born 1949) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a round table at Reggio Calabria (September 6, 2018)
“When you are good, money comes. When you are good, they pay for your services. Some actors live and die poor because they are not good enough.”
Justus Esiri (1942–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why some actors live and die poor’ – VETERAN ACTOR, JUSTUS ESIRI 2015, ENCOMIUM (Nigeria).
“Why are we so poor? Everybody wants to have the money of the government in his own pocket.”
Miriam Defensor Santiago (1945–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no single cent spent on the medical bills of the poor woman (Thobejane’s friend) who sustained injuries to her spinal cord as a result of being shot. She is wheelchair bound. Her parents and I are paying her medical bills because we want her to get her life back, but the state spends so much money on the commission…”
Tebogo Thobejane (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have told them to sit down and sort themselves out. That is where I am now and they know that I will not tolerate poor sports administration. I have already told them to stop demanding money for every sitting. They will only get sitting allowances for their single monthly meetings but that does not mean they will get allowances each time I call them for a meeting.”
Mahali Phamotse wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money – it’s always been like that. What do I, an agent, get out of a literary genius who won’t be discovered for another hundred years? I’ll be dead myself then. Successful incompetents are what I need.”
Walter Moers (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some Nigerian states are poor not because they are not receiving a fair share of oil money but because they are not receiving a fair shot at true federalism.”
Atiku Abubakar (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I always seek to ask: how can a poor country have so many weapons? I believe that the money spent on the purchase of weapons should be instead used for the development of the country”
Gonçalo Mabunda (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What we in industry learned in dealing with people is that people do not work just for money and that if you are trying to motivate, money is not the most effective tool.”
Akio Morita (1921–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“..I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.”
Akio Morita (1921–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I did very little marketing. The key is to make your clients money. If you have a good track record, people will find you and knock on your door. Just make your clients money.”
Jim Rogers (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: 占·羅傑斯 (zh)
“I've made more money in novels than I did in my entire career in comics. The few years I did novels, they paid off so well, I don't have to be a slave to doing comics. But I'd rather do comics than novels. If I wanted to do it just for the money, I'd run off and do another novel. I just don't have the juice for it. I'm really not interested in it. It's a love for what this medium is.”
Jim Starlin (born 1949) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview at comicbookresources.com (28 July 2000)
“If now I…say "Stealing money is wrong," I produce a sentence which has no factual meaning — that is, expresses no proposition which can be either true or false. It is as if I had written "Stealing money!!" — where the shape and thickness of the exclamation marks show, by a suitable convention, that a special sort of moral disapproval is the feeling which is being expressed.”
A. J. Ayer (1910–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I used love like money, but love doesn't work like money. It is not a commodity. When we barter with it, we all lose. When the church does not love its enemies, it fuels their rage. It makes them hate us more.”
Don Miller (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.”
Paul Newman (1925–2008) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures (2006), edited by Yann-Brice Dherbier and Pierre-Henri Verlhac, p. 110
Also quoted by: English proverb (english)
“Why don't I have enough money? The answer is obvious. Money is how people are measured. What you are worth is what you are worth. The reason I am not worth very much is because I am not worth very much. Nothing could be simpler.”
John S. Hall (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
Anne Herbert (writer) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Next Whole Earth Catalog", (1980), p 331., also available at https://archive.org/details/nextwholeearthca00unse/page/331?q=%22Libraries+will+get%22 the Internet Archive (Derived from the Gilbert Shelton quote, "Dope…
“Is it not odd that the only truly generous person I ever knew who had money enough to be generous with should be a stockbroker? He writes poetry and pastoral dramas and yet knows how to make money, and does make it, and is still generous.”
Horace Smith (1779–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And thus love is founded otherwhile upon good prouffitable and this love endureth as longe as he seeth his prouffit. And herof men saye a comyn proverbe in England that love lasteth as longe as the money endureth and whan the money faylleth than there is no love.”
William Caxton (1422–1492) first seen 1474 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Game and Playe of the Chesse, Bk. III (1474)
“In San Diego there is a highly popular course called How to Marry Money. Note that the marriage is to money--not to a person. I inquired about the percentage of men attending... 'The course is really for women,' [the instructor replied,] 'it's not relevant to men.'”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Letting men die is a money-saving device. Safety costs money… as one safety official put it, ‘When everything is hurry, hurry, hurry, when you start pressuring people and taking shortcuts, things can go wrong. And then people die.’ No. And then men die.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Self-help books for those who believe You can have it all often advise, Follow your bliss and money will follow. With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, When you follow your bliss, it’s money you’ll miss.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But a happy marriage is less about money, children, or lack of sex than about how we communicate about money, children, or lack of sex.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All merchandize has the two essential properties of money, to measure and to represent all value: and in this sense all merchandize is money.”
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727–1781) said by 1781 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.”
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727–1781) said by 1781 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.”
Neil Simon (1927–2018) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed in Newsweek, (2 February 1970)
“Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer.”
Jacob M. Appel (born 1973) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing", The Huffington Post (2010-06-23)
“But Jesus, when you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.”
J. P. Donleavy (1926–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.”
Margaret Drabble (born 1939) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Guardian, January 2, 1993.
“Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their money extracting natural resources or moving them around. All today’s richest men have made their money out of intellectual property.”
Mark Getty (born 1960) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Blood and Oil," The Economist (March 4, 2000), p. 68
“#That every man who puts money into the hands of a "government" (so called), puts into its hands a sword which will be used against himself, to extort more money from him, and also to keep him in subjection to its arbitrary will.”
Lysander Spooner (1808–1887) said by 1887 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am a material to be used that will not cost you any money. I am afraid to collect money from you because if I collect it, it will affect the gift and grace of God in my life.”
T. B. Joshua (1963–2021) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On collecting money - "I Told Jonathan He Would Lose - TB Joshua" Premium Times, Nigeria (April 5 2015)
“[Credit] is an evidence of banking, but it is not the money itself. Money is gold, and nothing else.”
J. P. Morgan (1837–1913) said by 1913 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.”
Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'I don’t know, it seems weird to be making this much money and asking people to donate money,' It seemed unseemly. So I said, 'I think that I should just make less.’ I just thought it ... seemed fair. It seemed like I should make what you make if you're like, a high school principal or something. Not even the principal, but the assistant principal.”
“Making money out of paper, making paper out of trees We’re making so much money we can hardly breathe”
Todd Snider (1966–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man once said that the pinnacle of success Was when you've finally lost interest In money, compliments, and publicity A noble enough idea I suppose How on Earth he does this heaven only knows I know I need a lot more of all three of those Before I'll ever have the nerve to turn up my nose At any money, or compliments, or publicity”
Todd Snider (1966–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.”
David Ricardo (1772–1823) said by 1823 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?”
David Ricardo (1772–1823) said by 1823 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“GG Allin: If you think I'm into this for the money you're dead wrong because I'm not doing this for the money. I'm doing it because it lives inside of me.”
GG Allin (1956–1993) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: GG Allin on The Jerry Springer Show, May 5. 1993.
“If there is no more market for ancient Greek, there should be no more ancient Greek. If there are no jobs for historians, there should be no history. If there is no money in brains, there should be no brains - except for the brains that make money.”
Laura Penny (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The best money can procure for thee is freedom to live in thy true self. It is more apt however to enslave than to liberate. It is good also when thou makest it a means to help thy fellow men; but here too it is easier to harm than to benefit: for the money thou givest another is useful to him only when it stimulates him to self-activity.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’ve learned that having a lot of money is more fun than not having a lot of money, and that once you’ve got it, it tends to grow all by itself, like a fire.”
Tim Powers (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Money doesn't change men. It merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish, or arrogant, or greedy, the money brings it out; that's all.”
Henry Ford (1863–1947) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Bruce Barton, "It Would Be Fun To Start Over Again," The American Magazine (April 1921)
“The people are on the side of sound money. They are so unalterably on the side of sound money that it is a serious question how they would regard the system under which they live, if they once knew what the initiated can do with it.”
Henry Ford (1863–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Money is only a tool in business. It is just a part of the machinery. You might as well borrow 100,000 lathes as $100,000 if the trouble is inside your business. More lathes will not cure it; neither will more money. Only heavier doses of brains and thought and wise courage can cure. A business that misuses what it has will continue to misuse what it can get.”
Henry Ford (1863–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.”
Karl Marx (1818–1883) said by 1883 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source