Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

It was never really one of my goals to gain tremendous amount of celebrity or make a tremendous amount of money necessarily.

I still have my feet on the ground; it's just that I wear expensive shoes.

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

Normally, I've found in my life that the louder you speak, probably, the less of a fighter you are. All the fighters I've had a chance and the honor to serve with didn't pat themselves on the back, were pretty humble men and women.

I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

They're always saying I'm a capitalistic pig. I suppose I am. But... it's good for my drumming.

Nothing will stifle your human evolution more than fame and fortune.

I've never been pushy. People have said I should have been, more, but I'm not sure. I've watched hugely ambitious people: the minute they've got a success, they know where it's going, they know how to deal with it, and it all happens for them. Great. But that's not the way I - well, I don't like to use the word 'operate'.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

I just can't get excited about money as a motivation in a film. It leaves me cold.

… a creed of greed

I don't have a need to promote myself.

Being humble got me very far when I went to L.A., because it was in stark contrast to this town of people who were so cutthroat.

The life of fame was never meant for me.

I don't need a big K Street office or a British secretary or a facade for my ego.

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

I feel like I'm pretty good but I don't like to toot my own horn, you know. I want to let the work speak for itself and kind of move on to the next thing.

One gets on better in life if one is not over modest.