Delmore Schwartz Quotes

I don't talk to nobody. You know why? 'Cause if you ain't talkin' money, what the hell you talkin' bout?

Get money first; virtue comes after.

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

Certainly, it's very easy to fall in love with cash. If you're going to make all your decisions based on cash, you're going to have a pretty naffy career.

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

The whole of this talk about America being more devoted to money than Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, or any other nation is nonsense.

Money is not everything.

If there's three boxes that say 'Single', 'In a Relationship,' and the third one says 'Getting Money', I'd check the third one.

Money never meant that much to me.

I don't know if money is something to really celebrate.

I don't really want to rap about money.

You lose money chasing women, never lose women chasing money...

Don't become a philosopher before you become rich.

It's the same old story, all you think about is money.

Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn’t even an ideal that anybody’s fighting for.

It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.

All I care about is money and the city that I'm from.

My mind on my money, my money on my mind.

In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

I'm not rich and maybe I'll never be rich. Money is useful - yes - but I don't worship it.

The trouble with the new world we have watched being created over the past decade is that it sees no further than money. People have always been obsessed with money, of course - greed is as old as history. But when the institutions that govern all our lives forget there was ever anything else, then it gets dangerous.

If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.

I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth.