Jim Carroll Quotes

I'm making better than two million a year, but it's hard work. The luxuries and pleasures I enjoy in my spare time keep me in condition to do that work. Carnegie and Frick have more money than I have, but I'm getting more value for my dollars than they are.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Money is sensual.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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.

I'm a very wealthy man.

The one thing that makes me feel super lucky about my financial success is that I have a housekeeper.

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

I don't particularly care how many records we sell any more because we've kind of bought all the equipment we want to buy.

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

To get rich is glorious.

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.

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.

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.

I've spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting in Milan, well, that's my business; I can do it. But I don't live for it.

I'm rich, freakin' rich. It's crazy.

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.

Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.

With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I'm comfortable with money and it's comfortable with me.

When you're 23, 24 years old and somebody's given you a credit card and jets and limos and you don't have to pay the bill when it comes in - that's a pretty nice deal.