I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.
— William McKinley
Valuable Prize Money quotations
Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it.
If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office.
Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the wounded would have given far more than that to escape as they have, and the unwounded regard the money as a consolation prize for still being here.
Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.
In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author.
.. I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.
My fines? I pay more fines than some guys' career prize money on the tour.
Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.
I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.
Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich.
Their money somehow blocks it up. It is a great privilege to be poor--one that no man covets, and brat a very few have sought to retain, but one that yet many have learned to prize.
My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.
It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or tear stained or bloody, on the precarious pinnacle of the human landscape.
Look at the studio filled with glamorous merchandise.
Fabulous and exciting bonus prizes. Thousands of dollars in cash. Over $150,000 just waiting to be won as we present our big bonanza of cash on Wheel Of Fortune.
To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd.
No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
Belly strippers! The use of this device is one of the most highly prized - and highly priced - secrets of fast-money winners.
Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.
In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.
Getting an unsophisticated client was the golden prize.
The quickest way to make money on Wall Street is to take the most sophisticated product and try to sell it to the least sophisticated client.
My monetary studies have led me to the conclusion that central banks could profitably be replaced by computers geared to provide a steady rate of growth in the quantity of money. Fortunately for me personally, and for a select group of fellow economists, that conclusion has had no practical impact… else there would have been no Central Bank of Sweden to have established the award [Nobel Prize] I am honoured to receive.
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.
But few prize honour more than money.
This decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon
Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.