Subject: Money

I told you I needed to feed my family; they offered me 3 years at $21 million – that’s not going to cut it.

professional basketball player

The major concrete achievement of the women's movement in the 1970s was the Dutch treat.

(1941 – 2012) American novelist, producer, screenwriter & director

I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

(1922 – 2018) comedian & actor

Live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

President Bush has just one question for the American voters: is the rich person you're working for better off now than they were 4 years ago?

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

Negotiating: The art of persuading your opponent to take the nice shiny copper penny and give you the wrinkled old paper money.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter

Just give every coach the same amount of money and tell them they can keep what’s left over.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked.

(1930 – ) financier & investment businessman

I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars… the rest I just squandered.

(1946 – 2005) Irish professional football player

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

(1922 – 1999) labor union leader, president of the AFL-CIO

Lunch is on me.

(1969 – ) Canadian ice hockey player & executive

Some people pay their bills when due, some when overdue, and some never do.

When a feller says, ‘It hain’t the money, but the principle o’ th’ thing’, it’s the money.

(1856 – 1915) writer, publisher, artist & philosopher

You know, if I had nickel for every time Bush has mentioned 9/11, I could raise enough reward money to go after Bin Laden.

(1962 – ) American political satirist, writer, television host & comedian

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing – and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

American entrepreneur & author

Money is a powerful aphrodisiac, but flowers work almost as well.

(1907 – 1988) science fiction author

I want a man who’s kind and understanding; is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

(1917 – 2016) Hungarian-born American actress

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

Depression: A period in which you have no belt to tighten.