Joan Rivers Quotes

Thank you for making me nouveau riche.

I remember being really poor until I got my first $250,000 check from Faberge. That was pretty nice; I put it in the bank, and from that moment on, there seemed to be a lot of champagne and limousines in my life.

Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.

I obviously enjoy being wealthy. It's enabled me to have a career that I've chosen and not one that I've been forced into.

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

We have this expression, Christy and I. We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Prosperity is just around the corner.

All men who would obtain freedom must obtain wealth

I pay myself three, three and half million - which is plenty of money, c'mon.

You are not created for poverty.

I've been blessed to make pretty good money over the years.

Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure.

I've been able to help my family financially since making my first hit record. I bought my parents a house. My husband and I have a property in Portugal and one in Mumbles, Wales, and my family are always coming out to visit us. It has been fantastic to have such a successful career and to have been able to help everyone.

I never set money as a goal. It was a result.

At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.

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

There is not a single indication in man's wonderful mechanism that he was created for a life of poverty. There is something larger and grander for him in the divine plan than perpetual slavery to the bread-winning problem.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Of course, I'd like to earn Jonathan Ross's money, but I don't have sleepless nights wondering when someone's going to knock on my door with sacks of cash.

I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.