Quotes About Not Having Money

#1. I've always been terrified about not having money. I've been a big saver and a big earner. When I've been out of work, I've always found another job. I never wanted to get into debt, because money was very tight when I was growing up. I never felt deprived, but I couldn't have the things I wanted.

Cherie Lunghi

#2. You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

Philip Kaufman

#3. Not having money to spend doesn't mean we can't have well-spent moments every day. (42)

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#4. I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends.

Tonya Harding

#5. I remember not having money, I remember having money, and neither had a bearing on who I was as a person. It affected how others saw me, but not how I saw myself.

Eddie Huang

#6. Think I'm gettin' sick, I'm feelin' illegal/ And not having money is the root of all evil

Lil' Wayne

#7. Allergic 2 Broke, 'cause not having money when you need it fuckin' sucks,

Teruka B.

#8. Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.

Patton Oswalt

#9. I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity.

Terry Gilliam

#10. I think the guys who are sort of infantry in Somali piracy are not unlike low-level drug dealers in urban areas in America, who see it as, you know, not having many other options. I think it comes down to money and needing to survive.

Cutter Hodierne

#11. Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money.

Katharine Whitehorn

#12. Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it, not worrying about it. Suddenly you have it, then you worry, where is it going? Am I doing the right thing with it?

Dustin Hoffman

#13. Having no money should not be an excuse to not learn.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#14. When you realise that money doesn't actually make you happy, it's a quick fix to have things you've always wanted, but then when you have it, you realise that's not what actually makes you happy. It's more about having a great marriage and happy children; that's what life's all about.

Shane Filan

#15. I purposely don't talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It's not about the money.

Joel Osteen

#16. I don't think anyone cares whether you're working or not. I have the luxury now of not having to support anyone and not really needing a whole lot of money.

Michael Cera

#17. Artists always live in the cracks anyway, whatever culture they're in. They're usually accustomed to not having much money, to kind of roughing it.

Eric Drooker

#18. But it is not the rich person only who is under the domination of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.

George MacDonald

#19. Rich is not having more money. Rich is knowing the secret to getting everything you want in life.

Thomas L. Pauley

#20. It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me.

Mark Zuckerberg

#21. I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.

Bill Murray

#22. God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

R. Kent Hughes

#23. The old equation has changed. Most families no longer save money by keeping wives at home. They lose by not having wives in the workplace, where women have more opportunities than in the past to earn decent wages.

Stephanie Coontz

#24. I just want choices. It's not about making money and having a lot of friends in Hollywood; that's the last thing I want.

Bojana Novakovic

#25. In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#26. I'm having a reputation of being somebody who will not be crazy. Not descend to doing drugs and spending an enormous amount of money, and instead delivering a product to people. Something they can sell and recoup their money and make a profit.

Wes Craven

#27. I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It's hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money.

Christine McVie

#28. Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

Rebecca Ferguson

#29. One's sense of honor is the only thing that does not grow old, and the last pleasure, when one is worn out with age, is not, as the poet said, making money, but having the respect of one's fellow men.

Thucydides

#30. I was thinking earlier that to know this city you must first become penniless, because pennilessness (real pennilessness, I mean not having $2 for the subway) forces you to walk everywhere and you see the city best on foot.

Emily St. John Mandel

#31. It was then that Marvin got religion. Not the quiet, personal kind, that involves doing good deeds and living a better life; not even the kind that involves putting on a suit and ringing' people's doorbells; but the kind that involves having your own TV network and getting people to send you money.

Terry Pratchett

#32. Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?

Horace Greeley

#33. For me, the best things in life - meaningful work, meaningful relationships, interesting experiences, good food, sleep, music, ideas, sex, and other basic needs and pleasures - are not, past a certain point, materially improved upon by having a lot of money.

Ray Dalio

#34. If you don't put a value on money and seek wealth, you most probably won't receive it. You must seek wealth for it to seek you. If no burning desire for wealth arises within you, wealth will not arise around you. Having definiteness of purpose for acquiring wealth is essential for its acquisition.

John Frederick Demartini

#35. The new American Dream is about having an interesting life, not making a lot of money.

Penelope Trunk

#36. I think all music - not just rap - has fallen into this very diluted, delusional state, where everyone's singing about money and having cars, and having all this fun; when really, people are losing their homes.

Ice-T

#37. Fashion is an industry to make money. It plays into human psychology. We want to belong, we want to be loved. I'm not trying to demonize the fashion industry - I love the fashion industry - but style is about taking the control out of the industry's hand and having you decide what works for you.

Stacy London

#38. What we have to get straight in our heads is that owning the money doesn't mean ANYTHING. "It's the DOING with money that develops us - it's not in the having. And when you have more, you're enabled to DO more."

Jack Canfield

#39. I promise you, anybody given the choice of that kind of money or having to make a phone call to tell your dad that something like that has happened, it's not worth it.

Jennifer Lawrence

#40. When you are in the highest vibrational state you will not feel the need to; over eat, over spend money, insist on having a certain relationship, or even become a millionaire because you have shifted into the abundance that you are and from this place you dont feel any lack at all.

Renae A. Sauter

#41. Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Epictetus

#42. Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being.

Abhijit V. Banerjee

#43. I was never completely destitute. I think I borrowed money once off a friend, but I've always been quite careful with my money, having come from not much of it.

Naomi Watts

#44. The movie business is not about the money. Of course, you need money to make the movie. If you have a small budget, adapt yourself. Having $200 million dollars doesn't ensure that you're definitely going to make a good movie. There's so many examples that prove that.

Marjane Satrapi

#45. It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going from job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.

Nicholas Lea

#46. Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

Gary Oldman

#47. The greatest luxury of having money should be not having to worry about it.

David Whyte

#48. Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my ancestors, who were trying to get back at the overseers. Blues is different for my generation.

Robert Cray

#49. Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

David Duchovny

#50. 'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.

Felix Dennis

#51. It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or to get money for having sex with someone who does not appeal to you-incidentally, the basis of half the marriages of my generation.

Gore Vidal

#52. We're comfortable with movie stars having money. We're comfortable with a woman marrying a rich guy and having money. We're not so comfortable with a woman independently working in business and making a lot of money.

Candace Bushnell

#53. When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#54. I'm not used to having a boss. I'm the boss. I don't need the money. I'm filthy f ... rich!

Kimora Lee Simmons

#55. What I usually do is hoard money - I accumulate as much as possible in the fear of not having enough to pay tax.

Mark Billingham

#56. If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.

George Soros

#57. There are rituals not structures for being a poet, drinking too much, taking too many drugs, being a lady chaser, having your nervous breakdown, being irresponsible about money.

Diane Wakoski

#58. I dream about having a house by the water and not doing anything, not feeling ambitious, nor having the need to make money.

Lee Pace

#59. Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#60. That's why I'm so successful because peace is my main thing, it's not about money. It's about making sure everybody is having a good time and loving and living and enjoying life.

Snoop Dogg

#61. Beauvoir knew that the root of all evil wasn't money. No, what created and drove evil was fear. Fear of not having enough money, enough food, enough land, enough power, enough security, enough love. Fear of not getting what you want, or losing what you have.

Louise Penny

#62. I should have known growing up and not having any money ever that I should have kept every dollar that I had.

Heidi Montag

#63. You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life.

Paul Samuelson

#64. I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

Joel Osteen

#65. While I may not get any money from Linux, I get a huge personal satisfaction from having written something that people really enjoy using, and that people find to be the best alternative for their needs.

Linus Torvalds

#66. Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Mary Quant

#67. Clearly, having money doesn't mean you're immune to money stress. Not for nothing did Notorious B.I.G. coin "Mo Money Mo Problems.

Alexa Von Tobel

#68. It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.

P.G. Wodehouse

#69. How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

#70. Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.

Chris Rock

#71. If you do get married, get a prenup. It's not about money at all. It's about having a document that states how you'll dissolve your marriage while you still have a shred of respect for each other.

Alec Baldwin

#72. The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don't want to throw my money away, but it's really about having fun and that means success and trophies.

Roman Abramovich

#73. Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.

John Lanchester

#74. Having money will make you look enticing to women even if you are not a good-looking dude. Don't believe me, go ask Mick Jagger, Donald Trump, Jay-Z and the rest of the fugly men who have all the money and get all the fine women.

Rebecca Scott

#75. Having money might not buy happiness, but how you spend it could actually make a difference.

Ian K. Smith

#76. At the beginning, you are 20 and you can just imagine ... don't get me wrong, but having money. Then you realise that it's not only about you and what you are doing but that you have to give back.

Thierry Henry

#77. I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money,

Nigella Lawson

#78. What's success? Having lots of money? No, this is part of the practicalities of life. It is not success. Success is having two daughters who grow into fine ladies, two boys who grow into fine gentlemen. Success is waking up next to the loved one dumbstruck at your luck of meeting them.

Carol Vorvain

#79. I got sick, hospitalized, had no insurance. And the money I had saved for our honeymoon went to pay medical bills. So I had been in the position of not having insurance when I needed health care.

Dick Cheney

#80. Life's not about money. Look at achievements, accomplishments . It's about having fun. It's about enjoying life.

Mike Ditka

#81. She had certainly learned about not having enough money, which is different from being poor.

Anna Quindlen

#82. The simple reason that most people fail financially is not because of the lack of a plan, it's not because of good advice, it's not even because of a lack of capital. It is for one reason - they attach more pain to the idea of having money, than NOT having it.

Tony Robbins

#83. I like the idea of not having to do stuff for the money, and if I want to, I can pick indie projects for the rest of my life and be quite happy doing that.

Daniel Radcliffe

#84. Getting a tax refund is nice, but having more money year-round is better. If you get a chunk of change from the IRS, you're giving the government an interest-free loan - not something they, or any bank, would ever give you. Instead, change your withholding so you get a little extra in each paycheck.

Jean Chatzky

#85. The people who have more money and goods than any people in the history of the world spend most of their time worrying about not having enough.

Jim Wallis

#86. The key point to understand is that prosperity is an internal experience, not an external state, and it is an experience that is not tied to having a certain amount of money.

Shakti Gawain

#87. I was a little different. I still say I'm a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house.

Herschel Walker

#88. I used to fear things like not having enough alcohol and drugs, or the money to get them. Now I fear someone holding me down and physically forcing me to take drugs and drink alcohol. I fear that for some reason I wouldn't be allowed or wouldn't be able to read anymore.

Phil Volatile

#89. It's surprising how soon you can get used to having money. It's much easier than getting used to not having it.

Patricia Wentworth

#90. Ever since I started as an actress, just to catch up on some money, but not having an income for three years was tricky.

Famke Janssen

#91. As with most things governmental, failure does not mean having to try something else. It means spending more money.

Cal Thomas

#92. This entire ordeal taught me a valuable lesson. People are important-not things. I was no longer keeping up with the Joneses, material things or lots of money; that mattered very little to me. Life isn't about having, is about being.

Silvia Corradin

#93. I envied it; not the idea of having so much money that you could throw it away, but the thought of growing up in a world where someone cared so much about your happiness and so little about what you accomplished in life.

Kelley Armstrong

#94. The estate taxes, on balance, are good. They get people to give money to charity, and they prevent these family dynasties which keep other people from having opportunities. It may be good for a family, but for society it's probably not good. And I've always been in favor of having an estate tax.

Michael Bloomberg

#95. Later on when it became a routine it was not as exciting I'll admit that. The first three years were wonderful, the rest were just money making and having fun.

Larry Hagman

#96. I never thought it was fair for an 8-year-old child not to be able to afford shoes, or to wander the streets having to beg for money. To know that child's joy would end soon, when they realised there was no future.

Shakira

#97. I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

Karen Carpenter

#98. Money gives me just one big thing that's really important, and that's the freedom of not having to worry about money.

Johnny Carson

#99. I pay people very, very well - probably more than I have to. But that costs me less money in the long run because I'm not having to constantly train somebody. I pay them enough that they don't go seeking a higher scale at the next restaurant.

Paula Deen

#100. People often talk about the pain and degradation of being bullied. No one really talks about the cost. Not that money is more important than those other things, but having to pay the expenses of your own humiliation just rubbed rock salt into the wound.

Lish McBride