Theo Paphitis Quotes

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

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

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.

But you've got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn't matter as much when you're young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

I have a nice house, nice cars, nice watches, nice things. I've got money in the bank. I'm not in need of a few quid - as it stands. It's all irrelevant to me.

I've been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn't starving; I was going to eat the next day.

Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does buy happier.

I'm O.K. having a comfortable life. I don't have to live in a mansion and drive Aston Martins or Ferraris.

For centuries, prosperity has been easy to define in material terms. At a personal level, by how much one earns; how much one has.

You know, life hasn't changed that much for me. It's just, everything's gotten a little nicer. I drive a nicer car. I live in a nicer house.

You certainly have a higher quality of life when you are not on the Forbes list. It just means that your security changes, and you're known for the wrong things.

I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled rotten.

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

I remember being really poor until I got my first $250,000 check from Faberge. That was pretty nice; I put it in the bank, and from that moment on, there seemed to be a lot of champagne and limousines in my life.

The best thing about being rich is the freedom; freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. It doesn't suck.

I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs.

Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?

I am fairly rich. Money's very handy, let's face it.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.