George Bernard Shaw Quotes

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

Money is important. It is an important resource to have to help us build the life we want, but we overvalue it.

I am fortunate to have enough money not to have to worry about the necessities of life. Beyond that, I try to think about money as little as possible.

I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

What would I do with money? I have enough for my needs. I don't want any more. If I had a lot, I would have to care for it, worry about it.

I never wanted to take a job because I needed money, and I never have.

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.

I do quite well for myself, but I live a simple life.

Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.

I'm not an extravagant person. You don't get a chance to spend money when you're working on a TV show.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.

It's nice to be financially secure. Apart from that, I really don't care too much about money.

I don't care about money.

My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.

I don't have a lavish lifestyle with expensive cars.

The money is great, no way am I complaining.

I never cared about money.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

A small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.

I have never had the need or thrill for being wealthy.