Quotes About Never Having Enough Money

#1. All their life, people work hard to earn money, and they never earn enough money to fulfill their dreams. Is this a paradox?

Saurabh Sharma

#2. One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.

David Foster Wallace

#3. And I would never accept a film because of the money. I have enough money.

Virginie LeDoyen

#4. Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

Lindsay Fox

#5. When you work for the thing you believe in You're rich though the whole way is rough- But work that is simply for money Will never quite pay you enough.

Rebecca McCann

#6. There's never enough money, there's never enough time, there's never enough reliable help around, anything you plan always goes wrong - it's just hard to be human, isn't it?

Elizabeth Banks

#7. I think we all have limitations, as directors. I don't care what the budget is, it's probably never enough money and never enough time. You figure it out. Sometimes the limitations bring more creativity.

Francesca Gregorini

#8. Fiction had never been Jackson's thing. Facts seemed challenging enough without making stuff up. What he discovered was that the great novels of the world were about three things - death, money and sex. Occasionally a whale.

Kate Atkinson

#9. Women look at their bodies, and they're never thin enough. The financial advisors that I've talked to say they ask their clients, "How much money do you need in order to feel secure?" "X amount." Then, as soon as the client got the amount, it would double automatically.

Geneen Roth

#10. You need only one thing in the world. It is not money. It is not fame. It is not even food. All you need in the world is hope. As long as you have that, you have everything. This is your birthright that you should never lose. If you keep hope, all your other necessities will come soon enough.

Ilchi Lee

#11. I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.

Naomi Campbell

#12. Money is ultimately never enough compensation for investing one's time and energy. There must be a sense of purpose, meaning, and accomplishment.

Dan Miller

#13. I remember asking my mom, "Do you think that I will ever have enough money to live outside of your house?" And she would be like, "You just never know."

Lena Dunham

#14. If it's achievement that you place your value in, you're never going to achieve enough. If it's power, you always need to wield power over others. If it's money, you'll never be rich enough. But if you do something and are a part of what is happening, then you're always in it and it's always enough.

Jason Segel

#15. Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money.

Suge Knight

#16. I spend a lot of time in my bed. It's a good comfy one with a tartan bedspread. It's the only place I can read without straining my neck, and I take an afternoon nap, which is my reward for making enough money from my writing now not to have to work. I never get up in the morning before 11.30.

Martin Millar

#17. I joke that I've never been burdened by having an actual hit. There's something to that. My records have sold enough to make the record company money to help me keep my job. But I've never had anything so firmly ingrained in the mind of the public that I'm expected to repeat it.

Lyle Lovett

#18. There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends.

Derrick Jensen

#19. The main thing in measuring integrity is someone's motive and intent, not how many records they sell. Our intent in Ministry was never to be big. We just wanted to make enough money to live and to buy a studio, which we have done in Austin.

Al Jourgensen

#20. Let's be honest, I have enough money to never have to work again.

Emma Watson

#21. My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions ... . The dove is my emblem ... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it ... . I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill ... .

Thomas A. Edison

#22. Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game.

Harvey MacKay

#23. We shall never become an immense power in the world until we concentrate all our money and editorial forces upon one great national daily newspaper, so we can sauce back our opponents every day in the year; once a month or once a week is not enough.

Susan B. Anthony

#24. I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.

Jack Vance

#25. Our wants always exceed our resources, and we believe that's the source of our unhappiness. Not so. Never was. No wonder we always feel stressed out and inadequate; we never make enough money to afford what we tell ourselves we need.

Anonymous

#26. The most foolish thing I've ever done related to money was spend too much of my life worrying about whether I had enough or didn't have enough, I always felt I never had enough. I cheated myselfout of living in the moment, and I'll bet I die with a lot left over.

Lois P Frankel

#27. Money gives you independence; but when you start chasing it, it is never enough.

Anderson Cooper

#28. Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.

Ethel Waters

#29. I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled rotten.

Charles Saatchi

#30. It never seemed fair that just when you're old enough to do anything you want, you can't. You have to start working, so there's no time. And if there is time, you're not working, so there's no money.

Terri Farley

#31. If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.

Vicki Robin

#32. But even if I never bought any more clothing ever," I said, "I wouldn't have enough money to buy the Picassos that I want.

Ernest Hemingway,

#33. I want to be the father I never had and the husband my mother was cheated out of. So if I have to take off my fucking clothes to make the money I need, I'll do it. And I pray you want me enough to suffer through it. Because I promise I'll make it up to you for the rest of my life.

Marissa Carmel

#34. No movie has ever got enough time. It doesn't matter how much money you've got, and it doesn't matter how much money you've not got. You never finish on time. You're always up against it and you're always working up until the end.

James McAvoy