Lewis Grizzard Quotes

When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.

Money... is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse - very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity.

The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left.

You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'

I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it's not about the money.

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.

People who have money have an obligation. I wouldn't say I'm entitled to tell them what to do with it but to use it wisely.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.

I find money some way or other goes very fast. But I think I can reflect it has been spent with satisfaction and to my own honour.

I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

It's not easy to be my sons because we're very high profile. We try so hard to give them a normal life. I'm very, very tight with them about money. I don't give that money until they ask, 'I need 100 yuan for my lunch card,' and so on. So they never have extra money.

I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.

My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.

My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over 'The Wall Street Journal' or the 'Financial Times' and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.