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.

There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long underestimate the risks want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them and they end up spending more money causing much more damage to the economy.

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.

I'm not overly alarmist about it but I do think there are some worrying signs like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

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

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

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.

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

It's rather naive apart from being ethically objectionable to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.

My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ.

I don't make decisions based on money.

I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.

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.

Don't make music for some vast unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.

It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money and not have to like have them go to work anymore you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.

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.'

Well I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.

That money talks I'll not deny I heard it once: It said 'Goodbye'.

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.

I'm not broke. Like everybody else I owe money.