Mike Will Made It Quotes

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

No man can add one dollar to his bank account by worrying.

The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over 'The Wall Street Journal' or the 'Financial Times' and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.

I can tell you that when you're counting every penny, knowing that you are a single bad decision away from bankruptcy, you inevitably lose focus on what really matters for your business.

This isn't like cancer, where we don't know the solution. Financial planning is math. We have the answers, yet it's this huge cause of stress.

Financial security is crucial for your family, and I have a large family. Money does matter when you don't have it. When you need it, you realise the value of it. In that sense, money will always have value.

Your fame and your success moves much more rapidly than your ability to fund it.

My mom, her money going was straight to the bills.

If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

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?'

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.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.

I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.

If you're not staying on top of your money, you are putting your financial well-being at risk.

If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.

When you have a lot of money, there's so many places you can go to manage your money. But when you don't have money, mathematically you actually need a financial plan more. You can't really afford to make mistakes. So why is this such a luxury product?

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.

Life is a story. You and I are telling stories; they may suck, but we are telling stories. And we tell stories about the things that we want. So you go through your bank account, and those are things you have told stories about.

I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

There's lots of things that can be solved with cash.

I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.