#money

But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#humans #lives #make #many #money

I have no profession. It is another example of my decadence. My attitude - quite an indefensible one - is that so long as I am no trouble to any one I have a right to do as I like. I know I ought to be getting money out of people, or devoting myself to things I don’t care a straw about, but somehow, I’ve not been able to begin.” “You are quite fortunate, it is quite a wonderful opportunity, the possession of leisure. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#money #motivation #occupations #attitude

I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#films #freedom #get #i #i think

They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly. ↗

— Cass Elliot

#money #outrageous #paying #silly #sum

I've never made choices based on money - I always trust my gut. ↗

— David James Elliott

#based #choices #gut #i #i always

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#books #buy #clothes #food #get

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. ↗

— Evan Esar

#america #athlete #average #believes #earns

Educate yourself. Understand what you're dealing with. Then figure out how to fight it. Then figure out how to raise money for that fight. It'll help you cope. It'll help your child. ↗

— Boomer Esiason

#cope #dealing #educate #fight #figure

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent. ↗

— Guy Verhofstadt

#economic strength #face #let us #money #more

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. ↗

— Alan Watts

#enjoy #great #how #imagination #know