James Baldwin Quotes

I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

I was making so much money I didn't care. I didn't know what to do with the money.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.

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

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money.

Money does not guarantee success.

You can have X amount of pounds in your bank every month, but if you're not happy, and you're not finding peace in what you're doing, it doesn't really matter.

Money is sensual.

I don't care about having money. It's about being happy, man.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

I never set money as a goal. It was a result.

I think money helps us. It helps us. It's our - it's our exchange system. But it does not buy you happiness. It doesn't buy you health.

Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.

With all my work, I have not more, with my shares in the bank and the Academy, than twelve or thirteen thousand reales a year, and with all this, I am as contented as the happiest man on earth.

To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.

I wasn't raised with money, so I had to get used to having it. I think I've adjusted to it pretty well.

My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

You know, your whole life you're concerned about money for this and that. And then you don't have to worry about it, so you worry about other stuff.