Sayings About Having Lots Of Money

#1. 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

#2. Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Paramahansa Yogananda

#4. I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Pablo Picasso

#5. To be happy, you need time. Lots of time. Happiness too is a long patience. And it is the need for money that robs us of time. To be rich means having time to be happy when you deserve happiness.

Albert Camus

#6. The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it.

Bill Barich

#7. When I was an actor, I worked with lots of men who had a bit of success early on, who were very good looking, who suddenly made a bit of money and who felt no embarrassment - and nor should they have done - about having a good time.

David Nicholls

#8. I think we have some special talents. That being said, I think it's dangerous to rely on special talents - it's better to own lots of monopolistic businesses with unregulated prices. But that's not the world today. We have made money exercising our talents and will continue to do so.

Charlie Munger

#9. Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

Wim Wenders

#10. Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.

Stewart Stern

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

Penelope Trunk

#12. Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America's political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind.

Malcolm Turnbull

#13. New York had impressed me as a place where there was lots of money and not much difficulty in getting it.

James Weldon Johnson

#14. I think people think I spend loads but I very rarely treat myself. I could splash out on lots of things but I put my money into properties.

Amy Childs

#15. We go to school so that when we grow up we can make lots of money, and we make lots of money so we can provide for our children, and we have children to provide for our retirement (because we don't have any money left).

R.M. ArceJaeger

#16. It's clearly a budget. It's got lots of numbers in it.

George W. Bush

#17. And it's very, very funny
When you've lots and lots of money
To be horrible to those with none!
Be horrible to those with none!

Anna Russell

#18. For artists it's a lot easier to make art in bad times than it is in good times. When you've got no money it's easy to just drink your way through it and make great art. But if you're making lots of money it can be very problematic.

Damien Hirst

#19. Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.

Michael King

#20. Margaret Thatcher drove us like there was no tomorrow. But I think there is a genuine feeling now that this macho, workaholic, earn lots of money way of life has run its course. There has been a shift in attitude. People are looking for a more balanced approach.

Edwina Currie

#21. Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#22. The public's got it right, a lot of NBA stars are arrogant and like to spend lots of money and have lots of girlfriends and all that.

Andrew Bogut

#23. What it really takes to find particles these days is money and lots of it. There is a curious inverse relationship in modern physics between the tininess of the thing being sought and the scale of the facilities required to do the searching.

Bill Bryson

#24. Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

David Guterson

#25. Lambs think money and material things are the most important thing in the world. You can cheat, lie, steal, kill, be dumb as a rock, but if you can brag about money and having lots of things and your bragging is true, that bypasses everything. Money

Nnedi Okorafor

#26. 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

#27. In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows.

Peter Garrett

#28. We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation - even a shred of reputation.

Warren Buffett

#29. Be generous with your time and money - it has an amazingly fast payback. Be in the moment with everyone you love - and this frequently means tuning out work completely. And drive slow in parking lots.

Scott Weiss

#30. You can make a lot of money. You can rule kingdoms or run huge businesses or control vast terrain. But if you're just doing it for yourself, you're not really a success.

Tony Robbins

#31. If you earn a lot of money, you can give away a lot of money.

Peter Singer

#32. I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.

Madonna Ciccone

#33. There are very few guys like me. I make a lot of money. I didn't always ...

Paul Haggis

#34. Even though the industry is very big and there's lots of money, when it gets down to it, whether it's a photographer or a designer, as well as a stylist or makeup artist, you're really only working with maybe four or five people on a project. It's all quite small and intimate.

Guido Palau

#35. As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

Francis Ford Coppola

#36. He'sh mad?"
"Sort of mad. But mad with lots of money."
"Ah, then he can't be mad. I've been around; if a man hash lotsh of money he'sh just ecshentric.

Terry Pratchett

#37. I have to be really honest: People who say they can't escape the paparazzi are full of sh*t. Let me just be the artist to throw everybody under the bus. I don't spend lots of money on houses or lots of cars, but I do spend money on security and they never find me.

Lady Gaga

#38. If there is a public perception at all, they see the producer as a big old guy who smokes a cigar and has lots of money and lots of power. That's not what a producer is and, if it ever was what a producer was, it certainly hasn't been for a long time.

Marshall Herskovitz

#39. Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.

Terry Pratchett

#40. People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying to raise money at the low end and find that they can't get funding because of this mismatch. I think that there is an opportunity there.

Clayton Christensen

#41. Chris (Moneymaker) winning that tournament has made the rest of us a lot of money.

Greg Raymer

#42. If I pay you lots of money to see reality in a certain way, you will.

Dan Ariely

#43. I keep my distance from politics. Lots of money has been offered to me for campaigning over the years, and I have always refused. I used to be very politically aware and very opinionated, but I don't want to involve myself.

Bipasha Basu

#44. Pictures make a lot of money doesn't determine whether the experience was ...

Andy Garcia

#45. There's a lot of money to be made by taking women seriously, and letting them know you're taking them seriously.

Rachel Sklar

#46. You ain't never going to get rich that way, Johnson. And there's money in that dick. Lots of money.

James Lear

#47. It is very funny about money. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. All animals have the same emotions and the same ways as men. Anybody who has lots of animals around knows that. But the thing no animal can do is count, and the thing no animal can know is money.

Gertrude Stein

#48. I think business leaders all over the world should not just think of how we can make lots of money, which is fine, but to take some of the problems in the world and get out there and tackle them using business. I think that if businesses do that we can get on top of these problems.

Richard Branson

#49. I had a moment where I realised I could do silly voices, that lots of people I knew couldn't do silly voices, and that thus I must be able to make money doing silly voices.

Rob Brydon

#50. I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.

Ben Whishaw

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

Jack Vance

#52. Making lots of money
it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch. ch. 1, p. 23 in Penguin paperback

Martin Amis