Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Quotes

What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!

I haven't gone hillbilly rich, where you spend everything you have.

I've been on the telly for a long while. I've never saved any money or anything. I'm not one of those people.

Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it's not about the money.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

My private financial situation is such that I don't need to worry about my investments. I don't have much to invest.

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.

I never thought of myself as a wealthy person. I've thought of myself as a person who has had a lot of luck. I don't have the same stress that other people have, but there are too many things I could have done differently if wealth was what I was after. If I was all about money, I would have lived in L.A.

The less money you owe, the less income you'll need and the less you'll have to save for tomorrow.

Earning money is not a sin, and the bottom line is growth.

I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments.

I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.

But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don't think we've lost that mind-set. We don't have a bowling alley in our basement. We don't have houses on the beach and one in New York and one in L.A.

I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.

If I can make a dollar, I certainly am not stupid.

So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.

I have observed that money left without special guidance is sometimes used well and sometimes not.

I live a fairly simple life, and that didn't change much after I sold TechCrunch in 2010. I didn't buy a new house or even a new car. The one thing I did splurge on was a boat. Nothing too fancy or large.

Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?