Walter Scott Quotes

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

I suppose in the back of my mind I was always one of those guys who had a disdain for money. It had a value if you wanted to buy something, but if you didn't want to buy something, you didn't need it.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.

I like money, but it's never been about the money.

Advances don't fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn't really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I'm certainly not going to say no. But it hasn't come my way as yet, and I'm not heartbroken.

It's always weird when people approach me to make an investment. I tell them, 'I don't need any more money. I'm good.' Then I wait for their expression. That part is entertaining, because people look at you like you're crazy when you say you don't need any more money. Who says that?

You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn't figure largely in my world view.

The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.

My father was an engineer and my mother was a social worker, and they met as young socialists. That probably tells you everything you need to know about my attitude to money - I've never really been bothered about it.

I don't want to be poor, of course. But I try not to make that the guiding force behind whether I choose to do something or not.

My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.

One thing I know about the rich, being rich, is that you can take money from me and tomorrow, I'm still going to be rich.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.

It's a widely-held belief that Millennials are obsessed with money. And it's also wildly true. Just don't mistake it for a fixation with getting rich.

I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

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

When you are young and impecunious, society conditions you to exchange time for money, and this is quite as it should be. Very few people are hurt by having to work for a living. But as you become more affluent, it somehow is very, very difficult to reverse that process and begin trading money for time.

I never put a premium on making a living. It was never one of those things that was important to me.

Money is not something that's very important to me.

Money Isn't that important to me.

Money has never been of prime importance to me.

I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don't really try to act like a rich person, so I don't know what they buy. I didn't really like the stuff I saw, so I'm gonna stick with my humble lifestyle and just keep working out.