Everett Dirksen

Money is something you have to make in case you don’t die.

We didn’t actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren’t trying to change the world. That’s what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I’ve known in my life. That’s just the truth.

I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died!

If you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.

I’m so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn’t understand, she had to explain: ‘That’s like three Mercedes.’ Then I understood.

I don’t like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.

I’m rich beyond my wildest dreams.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the FOUNDING of a bank?

When a fellow says it ain’t the money but the principle of the thing, it’s the money.

Steve Jobs didn’t give a shit about money, and I do give a shit about money. I wanted to have a lot of money. I thought it would change my life, which it did, but not in the ways I expected.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.