People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it's about a lot more than being able to make money.
Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.
Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
Bitcoin woke us all up to a new way to pay, and culturally, I think a much larger percentage of us have become accustomed to the idea that money no longer comes with the friction it once had.
Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could say I drifted into writing.
If we'd have said we were not upset, they would have thought we were so rich it meant nothing to us, and if we say we're upset about it, they'll say money is all we care about.
I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner,...
I spent every bit of my money to try and get a Mickey Mantle card, and I don't have one. Growing up in Oklahoma, Mickey Mantle was my idol. And here I am, and I'd go pick cotton to have enough money, and I'd buy all of these packs, and I'd chew all o...
It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
I gotta make money - it all tends to disappear in this field.
When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through - the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer.
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.
I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.
Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.
The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.
From paying off friends' tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing £20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can't get rid of my money fast enough.
We are used to female writers who use their private lives as unmitigated material being somewhat hormonal; this somehow 'excuses' what might be seen as a highly unfeminine ability to turn their personal upsets into money.
My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.
I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.
For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.
