Charles Dickens Quotes

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

If your only arbiter of anything is money, really you should... go and rob banks.

A liberal is a person who sees a fourteen-year-old girl performing sex acts onstage and wonders if she's being paid minimum wage.

As a lawyer, money was my driving force. As the years passed, I accumulated more but was less happy.

There is no principle involved in my holdout. Only money.

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth.

Now the kids are portrayed as dirty when they talk to an agent, a shoe guy, some hanger-on. Well, it's only natural that people are circling them - there are millions of dollars involved.

I was guaranteed a hundred thousand dollars a year for five years, which was big money in the early 60's. You think, acquiring that should cool you out, but for me it wasn't true.

The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.

Donald Trump doesn't care who gets hurt, as long as he makes a profit off it.

I made a killing on Wall Street a few years ago...I shot my broker.

I remember, and I will never forget, one day - I was six years old and I was playing beside the road and this plantation owner drove up to me and stopped and asked me "could I pick some cotton." I told him I didn't know and he said, "Yes, you can. I will give you things that you want from the commissary store," and he named a huge list that he called off. I picked the 30 pounds of cotton that week, but I found out what actually happened was he was trapping me into beginning the work I was to keep doing and I never did get out of his debt again.

Every one fastens where there is gaine.

Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.

Get your money and as long as nobody is stepping on my wad then we're good.

I've seen innovation come from something as simple as a resourceful multibillionaire who wanted to make even more money.

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue.

I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer.

Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.

Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.

Is it going to make me feel any better to make an extra million? That million might be more important to the team.

The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead money can furnish a meaningful life to sold-out souls is the supreme lie offered by the system of free enterprise.

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.