Louise Erdrich Quotes

They say that money is not everything. I say that when you don't have any, it is everything.

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it.

People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

Having money isn't everything, not having it is.

One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.

Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don't care what anyone else thinks.

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

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

People are trying to figure out how to pay bills and make ends meet. They don't want to turn on the TV and say, 'What is this crap?'

For the vast majority of Americans who work hard and play by the rules, paying the bills may be hard some months, but it's something we always do.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

There's a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain't got it.

Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!'

We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

Growing up, I didn't know anything about money other than we didn't have any.

Part of the problem I find with money books is that there's this whole set of money books that make you feel almost guilty to spend a dollar.

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

Very few people can afford to be poor.