The war on driving includes calls for carbon and gas taxes, tens of billions of gas tax money diverted to inefficient and little-used mass transit projects, and opposition to building new roads and highways.
— Stephen Moore
The first iron rule of American politics is Follow the Money. This explains, oh, about 80 percent of what goes on in Washington.
My criteria for doing theater has always been slightly different than my criteria with movies, in that there are a lot of reasons to do films, having to do with location, money, and first and foremost having to do with script and role and director.
— Stephen Lang
NBA or nothing, man. I don't need the money. I just want to give back to the game. Anything else is a step down, so I just want to give the NBA a shot.
— Stephen Jackson
I don't want to be a guy who's just sitting on the bench stealing money.
'Freakonomics' began with a 'N.Y. Times Magazine' profile I wrote about Steve Levitt. I was working on a book about 'the psychology of money,' and since Levitt's an economist, my editor thought I'd be the guy to write about him. Fact is that Levitt has almost no interest in either psychology or money.
— Stephen J. Dubner
I still enjoy a wee game of poker now and then, but I'm not very good, and being Scottish, I don't like to lose that much money!
— Stephen Hendry
You come out of your MFA program with a cogent clutch of stories, trying to get an agent interested, and she or he admits these are quality, sure, but this agent actually needs something the publisher can make money on. So you get kind of bullied by the market into writing a novel.
— Stephen Graham Jones
We represent the people's money, and we have to be good stewards of that.
— Stephen Fincher
I pretty much lived movie to movie in my younger years because I loved spending money, and I didn't really have a concept of 'assets,' but as I got a little older, I bought art.
— Stephen Dorff
I like that Brita makes tap water taste good, so you don't need to spend money or waste plastic with bottled water.
— Stephen Curry
And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?
— Stephen Breyer
I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world.
— Stephen Baldwin
Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.
— Stephen Ambrose
Money is here to be made in America. - for those with the ability to earn it legitimately. The exception appears to be when you're young, gifted, and black. There are always questions when the three intertwine.
— Stephen A. Smith
In 2014, Blackstone was the most profitable money manager in the world. I did not anticipate that.
— Stephen A. Schwarzman
Your life shouldn't necessarily cost exactly how much money you make.
— Stephanie Ruhle
One of Trump's reforms is to limit the time that workers can use on the job at taxpayer expense working on union activities. What does this have to do with public service? So taxpayers have to pay overcompensated federal employees while they work on union activities so they can get even more taxpayer money.
As a developer, it's a great feeling knowing you have made an impact. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes with that: you have to really put the city's needs first. It's not all about making money.
— Stephen M. Ross
Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is being used to foment holy war against America.
— Stephen Kinzer
Just because we make a lot of money we're supposed to be the bigger person? Fans tell us that our kids are ugly and that they should have thrown our mothers in jail for having us. That's not disrespectful?
There's a lot of guys that play the game of basketball for the money, for the fame.
'New' movies are almost always hipper, faster, they mix genres aggressively, they smother their genre origins in new form, there are fewer of them, and they tend to cost a lot more money because you usually make more money on the megahit than you do on the steady progression of break-eveners. Except for the horror movie.
— Stephen Hunter
I have always really loved clothes, although I am glad to say that my tastes have mellowed somewhat over the years. When I first played professionally and started to earn big money, almost everything I bought was by Versace.
You have to want the haunted house to scare you. It completely steals your money to go through with one of those people who shrug it all off, who touch the monsters' faces to show they're fake.
This is other people's money that Washington is appropriating and spending.
I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.
— Stephen Daldry
Don't try to start a career in LA, unless money is all you're interested in.
— Stephen Collins
If you only do it for money, that's only what you get.
— Stephen Bennett
People didn't stop spending money, they just spent it on things that complement their PCs.
— Stephen Baker
I go to work every day with two missions. Two! No. 1: how can I make my bosses more money? And No. 2: how can I get some of it?
I like things with upside. That's how you make money.
Inaccurate analysis produces faulty insights and bad decisions - which lead to losing a tremendous amount of money.
When I was 23, 24, I started covering hedge funds - a lot of this was luck - when no one else did. This was before hedge funds were the prettiest girl in school: this was pre-nose job and treadmill for hedge funds, when nobody talked to them - back then, it was just all about insurance companies and money managers.
Blue staters tend to send liberal politicians to office, who then vote for bigger federal spending - even though a greater share of the money goes to the red states.
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
— Stephen Leacock
Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.
— Stephen King
I came into the NBA not looking at it as a job but the same way I did when I was playing at the Y. I was just getting a paid a lot of money to do it, that's all.
I think Don King has always been an idiot in my mind. He's always been about money. I don't think he cares about anything else but himself.
Before the 20th century, to be a successful musician was merely to be one who was employed. A few, such as Liszt, Paderewski and several singers, had phenomenally lucrative careers, but they were rare - and Liszt gave all of his money away, travelling by choice in a third-class rail carriage.
— Stephen Hough
I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter's school fees.
— Stephen Hawking
When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it - I didn't know enough to know it was really gonna be hard.
— Stephen Gaghan
We have to remember there is not a big printing press in Washington that continually prints money over and over.
If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?'
If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.
— Stephen Colbert
Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.
American corporations hate to give away money.
If you are in the world of business, that means you are in the business of making money.
In the Catholic schools, they spend much less money than the public schools, and they get amazing results. Private schools spend much more money than the public schools, and they get remarkable results.
It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.
— Stephanie Tubbs Jones
