People look at me and they go 'You're white you're smart you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because as long as you have been in a movie that has made money you will always get another job.
I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure well you can be.
People may take a job for more money but they often leave it for more recognition.
I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.
Animals they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and you know if there are people that have compassion there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion animals need all the help they can get.
If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.
When you try to find funding for a VVA function it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say no we can't afford certain things. No we can't do certain things.
I'm not sure about the selling part but I've always found that the things I've worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together.
I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.
We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.
Let us face it: in the world today money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.
People really feel that when they go to the gas pump now that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.
Organized labor if they're doing a responsible job is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.
You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.
I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me 'I wish I had more money.'
I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.