Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, appliances, and heating and cooling equipment - money we could save by investing in energy efficiency.

The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.

I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.

People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren't here to enjoy them, what good do they do?

Capital isn't this pile of money sitting somewhere; it's an accounting construct.

My fat never made me less money.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.

Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?

I found out there is a production paradise in Brazil. I was able to make my second collection for less money but without sacrificing quality. More importantly, manufacturing in Brazil also fits in with my global initiative: to provide work and empowerment in a third-world country.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things - and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I've learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, 'cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

I know you don't always need to spend a ton of money to be stylish.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend.

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.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.

A company has a greater responsibility than making money for its stockholders. We have a responsibility to our employees to recognize their dignity as human beings.

I spend my money on holidays and eating out, and it allows me to be generous.

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.

We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.

I have always been afraid of banks.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

I don't develop anything. I don't practice, I don't rehearse. I just go out there, and it's just amazing and unpredictable and spontaneous every single time. It's the most cultivating incredible performance that you can go and see live for the amount of money that you can see it for.

It's not about how skinny you are or how much money or how many diamonds you have - that's the fluff that people sometimes look at as being the main thing. It's about understanding that the things that make you fabulous are all inside of you.

When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.

I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.

We live in a digital world where all is available at the touch of a screen. Money has been simplified, changed subtly over time from tangible bills to numbers in cyberspace. Cash is no longer in a cloth bag; it's numbers on a screen. Numbers that can be manipulated and modified. If you run out of numbers, you can just buy some more, right?

When we talk about having a life of significance and meaning, it's not about fame or money or resources. It's about people and lives and hearts. That's my biggest passion in life.

The time making money should be greater than the time that you are spending money.

The Trump people make it extremely hard to figure out what's going on with their businesses, so we've done things like try to figure out all the people, the charities who rented out ballrooms and hotel rooms, all the NBA teams that stay at his hotels, people that pay him a lot of money and have other choices.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.

You've got to tell your money what to do or it will leave.

First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.

My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.

You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you're moving out. But it's demanded by the market. You need to show it off. You don't have to rip out the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe replace the tiles or the countertops. Get professional advice.

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.