Isak Dinesen Quotes

There's no future in being poor.

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.

You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.

Money doesn't drive me.

Money brings you security and choice. You can make decisions in a different way if you have a lot of money. But when you have nothing, you have a naivety, and a more fearless attitude because you have nothing to lose.

I've been able to help my family financially since making my first hit record. I bought my parents a house. My husband and I have a property in Portugal and one in Mumbles, Wales, and my family are always coming out to visit us. It has been fantastic to have such a successful career and to have been able to help everyone.

I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

I believe that God's dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don't mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you're planted. But I don't have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.

Of course, I'd like to earn Jonathan Ross's money, but I don't have sleepless nights wondering when someone's going to knock on my door with sacks of cash.

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

I come from nothing. When I got a chance to make some money, I was like, 'Man, I'm not ever going back.'

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

No, I'm not wealthy.

He that is rich is wise.

If you're broke, you don't want to rap about being broke; you gonna rap about hustling and getting that bread.

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.