Margaret Mitchell Quotes

Money is only important when you don't have any.

When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'

Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

Independence feels like a luxury, where the reality is that it's hard to survive financially for so many people out there.

Rich people have the potential to reach a point where they see money as the source of their safety and security.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'

Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

He that is rich is wise.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it's about a lot more than being able to make money.

I've got to love the film, not the money. Because I know what it's like not to have money - you still survive.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'

I had spent many days hungry; had slept on railway stations at times because I did not have money to pay for a hotel room... there were moments when I felt I had compromised my dignity as a human being and as an actor.

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing.

For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.

I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.

…it would be much better to enable every man to earn his own living, instead of being driven to the awful necessity of stealing and then dying for it.