Richard Stallman Quotes

For me, the biggest thing with money has always been independence - just the biggest.

Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.

I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.

I suppose in the back of my mind I was always one of those guys who had a disdain for money. It had a value if you wanted to buy something, but if you didn't want to buy something, you didn't need it.

I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.

When a person earns money, it makes sense if he spends it himself. It's a shame when a person earns money, and some strange funds spend it.

I don't care about money.

I'm not really worried about the flashy stuff. I don't got chains and cars. I spend what I need to spend. It doesn't faze me.

What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!

I'm much more famous than I am rich, but I'm able to scale back my lifestyle. I know a lot of people who were where I was who can't imagine living any simpler, but I haven't got a lot of expensive wants.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.

My feeling is, well, if it's my money, I have a right to judge.

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle.

Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.

Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.

Money grants you freedom, I guess.

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.

If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do.

If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.

At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

I'm not really interested in making money.

I don't live lavishly, so it's not like I have 20 assistants and travel privately and shop every day.

Me, I don't need money.