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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
- Lord Acton

Travel is not about money, it's about courage.
- Paulo Coelho

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.
- Martin Amis

for a creative person starting out on a career, try not thinking about film or media or whatever. think about money.
- Paul Arden

I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That's what everybody thinks about.
- Sean Astin

We had all opted to take City's financial reporting course work, which, in theory, meant we wanted to write about stock prices and corporate takeovers. That, of course, was a joke. No one still in their twenties, and broke, goes into journalism to write about moneya subject in which they still have zero practical experience.
- Chris Ayres

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.
- Oscar Wilde

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
- Oscar Wilde

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don't know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don't know how much I pay in taxes.
- Haruki Murakami

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
- Larry Bird

People assume that artists must talk about art and beauty and the sublime whenever we get together, but no, we usually talk about money.
- Christopher Bram

The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money.
- Steve Brown

Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.
- Chuck Palahniuk

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.
- Michael Caine

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.
- Jim Carrey

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
- Johnny Carson

Leibniz was somewhat mean about money. When any young lady at the court of Hanover married, he used to give her what he called a "wedding present," consisting of useful maxims, ending up with the advice not to give up washing now that she had secured a husband. History does not record whether the brides were grateful.
- Bertrand Russell

Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say it's mercenary of me, but there it is
- Agatha Christie

I used to always worry about money and where it would come from, but now I know that God is the supplier and the giver of good gifts.
- Jean Coleman

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.
- Edgar Allan Poe

When a couple has an argument nowadays they may think it s about money or power or sex or how to raise the kids or whatever. What they're really saying to each other, though without realizing it, is this: You are not enough people!
- Kurt Vonnegut

Talking about money is garish. It's tacky.
- Paula Deen

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.
- Bruce Dern

I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.
- Leonardo Dicaprio

What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

My mom taught me not to talk about money.
- Hilary Duff

You know, your whole life you're concerned about money for this and that. And then you don't have to worry about it, so you worry about other stuff.
- Craig Ferguson

It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down.
- Antoine Fuqua

If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money
- William Gaddis

I don't care about money.
- Lady Gaga

I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do.
- John Galliano

Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction.
- Helen Garner

I don't care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk.
- Lucas Grabeel

And the great thing about money is that it doesn't matter when you harvest it. It's an all-year crop.
- Robert Harris

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.
- Juliana Hatfield

We don't fight about money... I hate to see people fight about money.
- Christie Hefner

the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up.
- Karen Hesse

It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.
- Billy Idol

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R amp&; D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
- Steve Jobs

What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisionsif they can get rich making dumb decisions?
- Michael Lewis

About money-grubbing women, here's my stance: Bring on the gold diggers. I've got nothing to offer but pyrite.
- Jarod Kintz

What is it about money that makes people kill for it? I'll have to think about that next time I do it.
- Jarod Kintz

I don't talk about money.
- Kim Kardashian

Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.
- Carmen Kass

Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers.
- James Kelman

If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.
- Alexander Pope

The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you can use it to buy things.
- Hugh Laurie

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.
- Adriana Lima

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.
- Maya Lin

Life is not about money.
- Andrew Mason

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.
- Kim Novak

I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop. Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job.
- Paul Ogrady

Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job.
- Paul Ogrady

Don't cry about money, it never cries for you.
- Kevin Oleary

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.
- Shaquille Oneal

I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV show I'd never have to worry about money and wouldn't have to do anything I didn't want to do.
- Jerry Orbach

I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television.
- Tom Petty

Philanthropy is not about money...its about feeling the pain of others and caring enough about their needs to help.
- Timothy Pina

I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money.
- Alain Prost

It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.
- Gordon Ramsay

My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer - the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems.
- Diana Ross

I imagined my first night alone in bed with my stranger. I conjured our future years together unhampered by worries about money or officialdom. We would enjoy the day, the night, a smile, a word, a kiss, a glance. All lovely thoughts. All pointless dreams.
- Lisa See

I never cared about money.
- Jeanette Winterson

At only ten a.m., Edgar found himself already eyeing the Doritos on the counter. One thing he hadn't anticipated about the 'home office' was Snack Syndrome; lately his mental energies divided evenly between his new calling (worrying about money, which substituted neatly for earning it) and not stuffing his face.
- Lionel Shriver

In all honesty, I grew up a certain way. I never had to worry about money... that was my reality.
- Tori Spelling

The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.
- Paul Stanley

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
- Gertrude Stein

Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances.
- Jerry Stiller

The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you.
- Justin Timberlake

Politics is not about money.
- Paul Wellstone

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
- Edith Wharton

The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
- Katharine Whitehorn

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
- Katharine Whitehorn

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
- Katharine Whitehorn

And as an artist, as someone who writes stories and tries to make words into beautiful forms, it's vitally important to me, especially in a culture that's forgotten the value of beauty. It's a primary source or inspiration, I guess, when so much of what goes on around you is only about money and big swinging dick capitalism. It's important for blokes to be able to do beautiful stuff, impractical stuff, that adds to life. That's an early life-lesson from surfing.

- Tim Winton

I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
- Natalie Wood

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