Blake Griffin Quotes

This contempt for money is a trick developed by the rich to keep the poor without it.

But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth ten times more, I should guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear!

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

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

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

The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Poverty is born of super-abundance itself.

I'm a poor person who has money.

People are always asking me how much I'm worth. Well, all I can say is, I've got enough money to last me the rest of my life. As long as I die in the next 20 minutes.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

I'm not a billionaire, what a tragedy.

The funniest thing about some people is that they have no sense of humor.

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

I'm not a Mike Bloomberg billionaire.

I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don't know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister's clothes in order to save money.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.