Charles Lamb Quotes

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.

I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there's no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it!

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.

I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.

Once a man has begun to accumulate money, it is unnatural to stop. He actually gets in a state where he wants more and more..

People like comfort; that's natural. But as for making money simply for the sake of making it, and giving yourself far more trouble and anxiety to gain it than you can ever get pleasure from it when it's gained, why, as for me, I'd rather sit still and cross my arms.

The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.

Miserliness has its own conveniences, otherwise nobody would be a miser. If you are not a miser, you become more insecure. If you cling to money, to things, you feel a certain security: at least there is something to ding to; you don't feel empty. Maybe you are full of rubbish; but at least something is there, you are not empty.

A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...

The best client is a scared millionaire.

The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.

Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security. I've spent too much of my life feeling insecure. I still have nightmares about being poor, of everything I own just vanishing away. Stardom means that can't happen.

To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.

Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

I do think, you know, you don't have to have 30 billion, but you have a certain level of freedom.

A faithfully kept program of savings and conservative investments can give you more money and a better life than that of your neighbors who spend everything they get. This is probably the oldest financial advice in the world, but there are some things you can't improve on.

Put money in thy purse.

Making money isn't a bad thing at all - it allows for a lot more freedom.

I'm going to make more money than I need in any outcome.

Earth Is Enough. We men of Earth have here the stuff Of Paradise - we have enough! We need no other stones to build The Temple of the Unfulfilled - No other ivory for the doors - No other marble for the floors - No other cedar for the beam And dome of man's immortal dream. Here on the paths of every-day - Here on the common human way Is all the stuff the gods would take To build a Heaven, to mold and make New Edens. Ours is the stuff sublime To build Eternity in time!

I'm busy gettin rich. I don't want trouble. I made enough for 2 niggas, boy, stunt double.

$1,000,000 in the bank isn't the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.