Mathew Knowles Quotes

I have done well out of TV, but not well enough to buy football clubs. I'm not sure it's ever a way to make money.

As long as I can have enough to make the record and pay the mortgage, those were always the two things that were most important to me.

Industry is important, but everyone thinks money is important.

I always gravitate towards the independent side of things, just because those are the stories I always fall in love with, but you don't really get paid, and living in Los Angeles is expensive, and I have a mortgage to pay. So it's good to jump onto a studio film and then in all my other time do small passion projects.

It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.

I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.

I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.

That's where the money is, on the road.

I've never in my life bought a big piece of jewelry - like, 'I'm gonna get myself a big piece of jewelry!' Songwriters' lives are unstable and up and down. Even though mine has sort of has followed more of a going toward the sky trajectory.

Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.

We all know the record biz don't pay. All musicians have day jobs - no matter how big they are.

These will be fabulous investments and will make millions of more people rich.

Some billionaires like cars, yachts and private jets. Others like newspapers.

For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.

I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those sacrifices I made early on until I could afford it.

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.

I live a fairly simple life, and that didn't change much after I sold TechCrunch in 2010. I didn't buy a new house or even a new car. The one thing I did splurge on was a boat. Nothing too fancy or large.

I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.

Small businesses have told us that having cash in their pocket is one of the primary things that they need.

Like having your own licence to print money.

You know, I started doing movies. I mean, my mind was brought into saying, 'You know what? I want to build a generation of wealth.'

Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.

I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless you're Jedward! I'm doing very well, but I still have a mortgage to pay off. So I'm on the road.

It's a widely-held belief that Millennials are obsessed with money. And it's also wildly true. Just don't mistake it for a fixation with getting rich.