I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building.

Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?' April 30, 1998.

It is important to understand that even in theory the payment of the worker is not determined by the value of his product.

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it. 1998-11-09

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.

I was worth about over a million dollars when I was twenty-three and over ten million dollars when I was twenty-four, and over a hundred million dollars when I was twenty-five and it wasn't that important because I never did it for the money.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. Letter to Mme. d'Épinal, Ferney (1760-12-26)

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

To say that I’ve got millions in the bank, mate, would be a load of crap. Of course I’ve made money, but it’s all gone back into wildlife welfare. I don’t keep it.

It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led and how much you get it.

Blood's not thicker than money.

Will you marry me? Did he leave you any money? Answer the second question first. Duck Soup (1933), regarding Mrs. Teasdale's late husband.

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.

An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer — anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.

In the United States things have changed a lot, and it's hard to make good small films now. There was a time in the 1950s when I wanted to be a playwright, because until that time movies, which mostly came out of Hollywood, were stupid and not interesting. Then we started to get wonderful European films, and American films started to grow up a little bit, and the industry became more fun to work in than the theatre. I loved it. But now it's taken a turn in the other direction and studios are back in command and are not that interested in pictures that make only a little bit of money. When I was younger, every week we'd get a Fellini or a Bergman or a Godard or Truffaut, but now you almost never get any of that. Filmmakers like myself have a hard time. The avaricious studios couldn't care less about good films - if they get a good film they're twice as happy, but money-making films are their goal. They only want these $100 million pictures that make $500m. That's why I'm happy to work in London, because I'm right back in the same kind of liberal creative attitude that I'm used to.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.