Dan Deacon Quotes

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.

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

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

I could've signed with a team after Portland cut me and just sat on the bench and collected paychecks, but that's not my style. That just seems really unethical. Besides, money doesn't matter to me. I've got enough money.

It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous.

Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.

Those who do not need to provide or have not built the vehicles of their own sustenance can afford to be less hardworking and driven than those who carry the burden of necessity.

I come from a background where money has never been an issue.

I'm blessed, I can afford to send my children to private school.

I don't want to bust my butt for the rest of my life, like my parents.

We definitely weren't poor growing up, but we weren't rich.

I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that.

I've spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting in Milan, well, that's my business; I can do it. But I don't live for it.

I've turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

I feel like money makes you more of who you already are.

My father believed a real man didn't read, and my parents hoped I'd get some sense and find a job in insurance.

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

Ariana Grande is a billionaire before she's been an artist. You have to work to be able to appreciate what you have... what work did she ever have to do in her life?

For rich children, it'd be very easy and convenient never to take any steps to build an identity outside of your association with your family's wealth.

I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.

I'm working class. Not because my family have always been skint or because I'm from the grim north, but because I am from a class of people who believe in work. In paying their way.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

Maybe it’s that silver spoon in his [Mitt Romney’s] mouth that keeps him from seeing why the middle class doesn’t pull itself up by its bootstraps, like he did when Daddy loaned him his first million dollars.