David Geffen Quotes

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.

Of course, I do everything for money.

I never had money; I like nice things, but I don't let that run my life. At the same time, I have to let something drive me... so now I let the money drive me.

I never turned a part down when they offered me money.

I don't want to look like I'm money-hungry.

I don't fight for legacy. I don't fight for none of that, I fight for that check. I'm in the check cashing business.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

There is nothing wrong with making money, but that's not particularly inspiring.

I don't know if Jesus said it in the Bible, but someone said that 'the love of money is the root of all evil,' and I do think there's a correlation between the ambition that a lot of people have, in terms of financial remuneration, and the loss of core values.

I've been in a situation where I was after the money.

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

I'm not driven by the mighty dollar.

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

If someone paid me a million dollars to drink a glass of milk, I wouldn't do it; maybe that's because I don't need the money.

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

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

When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.

At the end of the day, it's all about money.

To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

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

I just can't get excited about money as a motivation in a film. It leaves me cold.

Those people are unabashedly ruthless as far as money is concerned.