John Waters Quotes

Money grants you freedom, I guess.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Wealth is, for most people, the only honest and likely path to liberty. With money comes power over the world. Men are freed from drudgery, women from exploitation. Businesses can be started, homes built, communities formed, religions practiced, educations pursued. But liberals aren't very interested in such real and material freedoms. They have a more innocent - not to say toddlerlike - idea of freedom. Liberals want the freedom to put anything into their mouths, to say bad words and to expose their private parts in art museums.

Abundance is about being rich, with or without money.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.

Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag.

And is it not the chief good of money, the being free from the need of thinking of it?

Money gives you the freedom to do with your time what you want to do with it

Money bought freedom; without it one could never be free.

Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game.

I don't care about having money. It's about being happy, man.

The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.

I've always thought stability was suffocating and deadly. Like, when I read that the kids I went to law school with have stayed at the same firm, I feel like I'm reading an obituary. How much money do you need? Six million, seven million? Put that in the bank and do something else. Get out!

The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.

I don't need YouTube's money. I have my own money.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

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

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.

I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.