David Mamet Quotes

Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

There's a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain't got it.

I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands... I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.

I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.

It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much, you have to think about it. If you are starving, you become interested in food. If you are struggling to pay the bills, money becomes tragically important.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it.

Money is a needful and precious thing

People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke.

Money is only important when you don't have any.

I don't even get an allowance.

Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don't care what anyone else thinks.

Having money isn't everything, not having it is.

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.

Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.

I'm always feeling like I have to do some bad action movie for money.

Money is central to our lives. Yet money is not of central importance. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the lasting values that make life worth living.

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.

The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.