Jake LaMotta Quotes

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

I wouldn't change a thing - except my bank balance.

I prefer to stay poor.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don't know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don't know how much I pay in taxes.

I realize what it means to be financially comfortable, and I want to be that. But I'm lucky enough to be in that position. And I'm also careful. I save 38 percent of my earnings after expenses, before taxes.

Women who have it all should try having nothing: I have no husband, no children, no real estate, no stocks, no bonds, no investments, no 401(k), no CDs, no IRAs, no emergency fund - I don't even have a savings account. It's not that I have not planned for the future; I have not planned for the present.

Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.

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

I don't have a mortgage or kids, so I can lie low and tighten my belt if I need to.

I like not having to worry about paying the bills, but I have to watch myself because I don't come from money.

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.

I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.

The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy.

If you have urgent current expenses to cover, then future priorities like college and retirement fall off your radar because they are simply less pressing. Scarcity of attention prevents us from seeing what's really important. The psychology of scarcity engrosses us in only our present needs.

If you're comfortable with what you have and who you are, you'll automatically be more comfortable talking about your finances.

Money is kind of just like air - if you don't have air, you can't breathe. If you don't have money, I don't think you'll want to breathe - you won't want to live.

I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money.

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.

I'm OK: I don't need money.

Financially I'm comfortable. But life has a lot more in store for me.

You only can live on adrenaline for so long; one thing is for sure, it doesn't pay the bills.

People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.

I wasn't raised with money, so I had to get used to having it. I think I've adjusted to it pretty well.

My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.