Chris Rock Quotes

My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'

I used to buy nice clothes and drive a nice car when I couldn't afford it. But I spent all my money doing it, and now I don't have to. I like nice things. I like to travel in a certain style. I like to live in a nice place.

My own feeling on the consumer is that he - he or she looks at what it costs them to pay their bills every month as opposed to how much debt they have.

I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.

Making money, getting yourself status in this world is not everything at all. But it has become everything in America. That you really have to get going and keep up with the Jones'. Get a house and a car and other things. And pretty soon you're stymied. Things own you.

Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

When I had money, I felt pressure, whether it was to invest it or do good with it, and I couldn't let it fizzle out. It was like I needed to prove to myself that I could look after it, only I did the opposite, but you have to take a chance in life.

It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.

I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.

I have too much money invested in sweaters.

I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

A new car is not going to change your life.

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.

I just felt like I couldn't deal with the everyday responsibilities of life, paying bills and all of that. I'm terrible at all of that. So I knew I had to make enough money to pay someone else to deal with all of that.

When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.

People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.

I've always saved. I believe in keeping money back for a rainy day and living within my means. I don't buy expensive clothes; I have a 10-year-old car I'm hoping to replace when a big job comes in. I suppose when we do go on family holidays, I am quite happy to spend when we are there.

I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate.

I think we've been dulled by capitalism. We're just blobs now - we're so worried about how we can keep paying the lease on the car, the mortgage, the lease on the toaster and all that. You can't really think about much else. If you lose that, you lose the whole lot.

Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.

The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.