Jamie Johnson Quotes

I came from a family in Texas who simply never spoke about money.

The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you.

Every society in every period does or doesn't talk about certain topics. We don't discuss money much; it's almost certain that most people don't know how much their colleagues earn. The Victorians, in contrast, were very happy to discuss money. They weren't, however, happy to discuss sex.

I don't talk about money.

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

The secrecy surrounding wealth and the anxiety of talking about money is absurd. If you are rich and you live well and you spend money and it is an essential part of your lifestyle, then you shouldn't be ashamed of talking about it. You shouldn't be ashamed of it. And I think you should accept it and be honest and open about it.

The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.

I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that.

I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That's what everybody thinks about.

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

It's fine to discuss money in France, as long as you're complaining that you don't have enough, or boasting about getting a bargain.

I never talk about my money! It is interesting how awkward it is to talk about it, even though I talk about it in the abstract every day.

I remember when I was younger, older folks would say to me, 'There are three things you don't talk about at a dinner party: religion, politics, and money.' But I think the truth is quite the opposite.

No one I knew talked about money. It's not an area of interest.

Every group, every system has a set of values and morals and when you get outside those, then the alarms ring. I was politically incorrect to 95% of the country; luckily my 5% had the bread to come see me.

Modernity is not about dress codes.

Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.

In a free society, you get what you celebrate.

to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.