Mary Karr Quotes

I've made millions of dollars with the body I have, so where's the pain in that?

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to define myself by my values.

I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am.

I'm worth far too much money. I don't need anybody's money.

I like money, but it's never been about the money.

I don't chase money, money chase me!

While prosperity is in some ways related to money, it is not caused by money.

But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.

If I have a roof over my head and if I'm cashing checks and choking some necks I'm always happy.

You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

I believe that God's dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don't mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you're planted. But I don't have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.

I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.

I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Certainly after '21' I was getting the opportunity to make a lot of money.

As an individual doing a podcast, you don't get even remotely rich. It's not something to do for money.

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

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.