Eddie Murphy Quotes

How you handle or mishandle your money tells us who you are and, more important, it tells YOU who you are. Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money. Your value system, or lack of one causes money to flow around you, passed you, or to you. When money is in your possession, what you do with it screams loudly who you are.

Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money.

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

I've always treated money with respect, but I don't really think about money - I try to avoid it, because I don't like what money does to people. I find if you get too much money involved, people get corrupted.

Certain money is not always good money. It could be just being at the wrong place at the wrong time. I mean, if you have your priorities in check then for the most part it's easy.

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass.

I read. It affects every decision that I make. Every dollar that I spend, every dollar that I make.

Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.

People will make worse financial decisions for them if they're choosing from a lot of options than if they're choosing from a few options. If they have more options they're more likely to avoid stocks and put all their money in money market accounts, which doesn't even grow at the rate of inflation.

I have made lots of mistakes in terms of contracts and spending money when I shouldn't have spent money.

The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

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

Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget.

Some folks can have all the money in the world, and still not know what to do with it.

There's always money to get.

I can't see myself ever spending hundreds of thousands on anything that doesn't come with a toilet.

What's the difference? Ninety million or 80 million. You still can't spend it all.

Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.

Heart can cancel out budget.

I always tell people, when I was growing up I was really into getting money - I didn't really care about anything else.

When people say to me, 'You're so prolific!' it's, like, no, I'm just hopeless with money.

Athletes are always talking about money at a time when everyone else is struggling so badly to make it. We all make way more than our fair share. And I just think it reflects poorly on myself and my teammates. I really do just want to win, and that has and will continue to be the reason that motivates me and is the biggest factor in my decision-making process.

Poor people either mismanage their money or they avoid the subject of money altogether.

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.