Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. - Victor Hugo
Tell me how you use your spare time, and how you spend your money, and I will tell you where and what you will be in ten years from now. - Napoleon Hill
I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian. - Larry David
Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level. - Winona Ryder
There is no class pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. - Andrew Carnegie
For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies. - Jackie Chan
When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things. - Jackie Chan
I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don't want to seize every opportunity to do so. - J.K. Rowling
It's a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur's metric for success. It's not, and nor should it be.
I've never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people's lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.
Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. - Oscar Wilde
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. - Oscar Wilde
For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man. - Kurt Russell
I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level. - Kurt Russell
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