Auguste Renoir Quotes

Thank you for making me nouveau riche.

I'm okay with having horrible lower teeth.

If you have urgent current expenses to cover, then future priorities like college and retirement fall off your radar because they are simply less pressing. Scarcity of attention prevents us from seeing what's really important. The psychology of scarcity engrosses us in only our present needs.

Thoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life.

I am fortunate to have enough money not to have to worry about the necessities of life. Beyond that, I try to think about money as little as possible.

I'm not chasing money, so I'm not looking at just trying to stretch out a deal artificially just to have a certain number.

I wouldn't change a thing - except my bank balance.

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

I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn't figure largely in my world view.

I could easily exist on less money, but I like the way I live now.

I don't want to be poor, of course. But I try not to make that the guiding force behind whether I choose to do something or not.

If I make $30,000 a month, I'll spend $29,999. I tell friends, 'Oh, you need money to go to college?' I'm a little crazy, but the backwash is heaven.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that's it. The lifestyle doesn't change.

It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much, you have to think about it. If you are starving, you become interested in food. If you are struggling to pay the bills, money becomes tragically important.

I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a taste for an elaborate home, fancy cars, and other luxuries.

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'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.

I'm from Berkeley, so I don't really aspire to a lot of glitzy stuff. But things like having a home that I'm comfortable in or leasing a car that I'm comfortable in, basic everyday kind of stuff, I will splurge for that.

I can't see myself ever spending hundreds of thousands on anything that doesn't come with a toilet.

Money is not everything.

Don't run after shows and money.

You don't want to say the money changes you, but it definitely does.