The 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' shows, they're great shows. But I think I need to make a show like that, directed straight to the hood, to the artists that don't get the attention, that don't have the money to make themselves representable.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.

'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.

I don't want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can't sing or dance, that's genius.

I sort of wanted to reveal this other side of Asia: Southeast Asia, where the Chinese have been wealthy for generations and have different ways of relating to money. I wanted to sort of reveal this world to readers.

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

I think even in bad times it's good to keep some money going into research. And that's the purpose of the whole space program. It's not just exploration and going to see how far we can go out into space and keep people alive and bring them back, although exploration certainly has its place.

The Nobel Prize is going to be 'fun money' - for an occasion, when my wife and I want a $50 bottle of wine.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!

When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money.

The amount of money currently in your bank account is a fact. The amount you spend today is a choice. And the way you reconcile both is through clarity.

I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money.

If you can have a great story that people can follow the mystery and get the suspense, and then you have those moments of tension and a splash of visual fun, then you kind of get everything. You get your money's worth.

Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.

Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.

You can't expect to make all this money and not go through problems. You can't expect God to give you everything you want without taking something away.

What I think is wrong is spending £9m of taxpayers' money on one particular piece of one-sided propaganda.

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.

I'm enjoying life at my fullest. Sometimes you realize that money isn't everything.

I grew up on the East Coast, and we always used to say, 'Go get your hustle on,' whether it was playing sports or making money. You do what you have to do to do what you want to do.

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

I personally think that people should spend more time and money on their marriages instead of weddings.

The blessing that I got from my parents, even if they didn't really teach me about money, was their simple lifestyle.

Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.

We need a conservative welfare reform initiative that is focused on putting people back to work and ensures taxpayer money is only spent on programs that have been proven to work.

One of the big myths about philanthropy is that it's all about donating funds for a cause. I like to look at it quite differently. Philanthropy is about 'giving' - not just in monetary terms but also in non-monetary aspects, like time, ideas, or being a volunteer. Donating money is just a small part of philanthropy.

If you make a really good product that people want and are willing to pay for, money will come.

I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music.

Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.

As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.

I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.

My philosophy has always been, 'do what you love and the money will follow.'

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

You don't make any money sitting in traffic.

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is.

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

I might go my whole life stealing money. I got paid to play basketball, which is a scam. I get paid to watch basketball, which is a scam.

My gold, my money couldn't stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can't save me, then I don't need them.

I have too many credit cards. You know what happened? Someone stole one and I didn't notice. I noticed when I got that bill. Whoa! It was so much less! I'm letting him keep it. I'm saving money!

There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people.