George Burns Quotes

I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?

My music is not worth $2.5bn. And also, I'm not rich.

Thank you for making me nouveau riche.

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.

I'm the only person I know who's got a bunch of money.

Sleep is for those people who are broke.

How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars

What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn't understand math.

Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don't need it.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.

I am fairly rich. Money's very handy, let's face it.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

I am more rich in goods than I am in money.

I do see things that are funny on the net. I Googled myself the other day and found out that I was worth $250m, and that I was the highest-paid guy in show business! I wish so hard it was true. It is, of course, the complete opposite. I'm neither rich nor do I make a lot of money.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

I wouldn't change a thing - except my bank balance.

I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Let me explain something: I'm not incredibly rich.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don't know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don't know how much I pay in taxes.

No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.

Money is not a fund of knowledge.

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.