Michelle Lujan Grisham Quotes

You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody.

I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.

Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.

Money equals freedom.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Unless you have financial resources of your own, you can't be free.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

You either have to find a way to be really creative materially, or you better have a trust fund. And, last I checked, I didn't have a trust fund.

People don't really give me much anymore, and for good reason. I have to pay for a lot of stuff now, I can afford a lot more than I ever could before. No one really gives me anything anymore, but it feels good.

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

I never wanted to rely on my family for money.

To me, wealth is the peace of mind you have, your family, your friends, your colleagues. Everything else is just money, and it really is funny how people pay so much attention to that.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

My mom always told me one of the reasons that she was really happy in her life was that, if Dad never worked again, she was confident that she could support the family.

I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.

Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn't bother me too much.

Money is the most important thing because there might be a time when you have no label behind you and you have to carry yourself. Money is the only thing that can shield you.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

We haven't shed our engineering pragmatism, so we accomplish things in the simplest manner possible. It helps with budget, obviously. We're not getting rich off web video, and we're supporting two families with our income, so we need to keep as much of the budget to ourselves.

I wish our wallet could match our warmth.

The Merchants are rich enough. Cannot they help themselves.