Money Quotes

"Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence."

"The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity."

"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game."

"Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it."

"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."

"What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous."

"The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare."

"I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy."

"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."

"As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger."

"War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation."

"There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience."

"If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it."

"I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience."

"No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer."

"I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories."

"But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your feet Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

"The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold."

"My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them."

"Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable."