Greg Giraldo Quotes

The Carpetbaggers was the first big money I made. Money gave me a lot of freedom, but no matter how much you make there's always somebody chasing your ass for more.

I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.

Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at ease, and above the world. But the law of association often makes those who begin by loving gold as a servant finish by becoming themselves its slaves; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth without independence.

I was one of the richest rappers in 2008. But it was definitely a strange feeling.

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

I don't care about having money. It's about being happy, man.

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.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.

The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.

I never thought of myself as a wealthy person. I've thought of myself as a person who has had a lot of luck. I don't have the same stress that other people have, but there are too many things I could have done differently if wealth was what I was after. If I was all about money, I would have lived in L.A.

I mean, the way I see it is, every penny I've ever made through music is free money.

Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write.

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.

I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.

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 always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

Prosperity comes slowly.

All men who would obtain freedom must obtain wealth

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

What costs the world to you as a working kid fresh out of college costs nothing to you as a successful musician.

Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.