Charles Bukowski Quotes

Whenever I did have a lot of money, I got in trouble.

I must say, I hate money. But it's the lack of it I hate most.

Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!'

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

I was making so much money I didn't care. I didn't know what to do with the money.

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?'

Money is a never-ending problem.

I have a poverty demon. I'll ask my accountant if I can afford something, and he'll say, 'What are you talking about?'

No matter how many people tell you, Save your money, when you've got a series, you never do. Somehow it doesn't seem important. Maybe it's because you've been without money for so long as an actor.

Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.

The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress.

There's no advice for when you're out of money, and there's none coming in, and nobody's going to give you any.

You ask my wife or my two sons, and they'll tell you that I ain't free with the money.

I've never felt fully able to sustain myself because I've run out of money many, many times, and it's been scary.

I think one of the hardest things to talk about as a comic is having money because it's so unrelatable.

Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough.

I was just shitty, shitty, shitty with money and I finally, when I really started making money, I had to get somebody to sit down with me and learn how to manage my money.

No one ever died with too much money.

Having money isn't everything, not having it is.

Money is only important when you don't have any.

Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it.

Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?