#money

Control, no. This place—I simply do not understand it. The humans here wear giant cocktail glasses around their necks and insert exorbitant amounts of money into little machines that light up. I still cannot understand, however, why they call them ‘slut machines.’ Is because they steal your money?” “I believe the correct name is ‘slot machine.’ They’re kind of fun… ↗

— Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#viktor #money

An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#money

The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#success #money

I like making money. I make it out of wood. I make nickels mostly. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#money

I can win anytime. Kevin's going to go back to Burbank and tell everybody in his cubicle how he won at the Golden Nugget. Sometimes the pot isn't the money. ↗

— Heidi Cullinan

#winning #money

I don't like bullshit and pretense. I can't enjoy the joy at church... without some cash in my wallet. ↗

— Toba Beta

#money #pretense #money

Erica had asked me a million times. 'Madison, are you sure you’re just the child minder? He pays you a lot of money for doing hardly anything.' Pushing aside the blatant insinuation that I was his weekend whore, I’d always told her the absolute truth. He’d never so much as looked at me inappropriately, let alone anything more. ↗

— Kyra Lennon

#romance #money

Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines with thrift you may be doing it without money, but you are not doing without. ↗

— Amy Dacyczyn

#voluntary-simplicity #money

Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer. ↗

— Joseph Sobran

#greed #need #money

It turns out that what money buys has rapidly diminishing emotional returns ... As long as we're not destitute, happiness depends less on getting what we want than appreciating what we already have. ↗

— Robert B. Reich

#happiness #money