Michael Moore Quotes

How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?

People don't mind if you have a lot of money if they know you're working for it.

Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.

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

I work for everything I've got. I started off as a very poor kid. I want to get paid.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.

Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.

I've made more money than I could spend in five lifetimes.

I want to make money but not if it involves exploitation.

Money means a lot of respect. It means a lot of accomplishment and a lot of hard work.

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

So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

I never set money as a goal. It was a result.

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.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Of course, I'd like to earn Jonathan Ross's money, but I don't have sleepless nights wondering when someone's going to knock on my door with sacks of cash.

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

I'm making better than two million a year, but it's hard work. The luxuries and pleasures I enjoy in my spare time keep me in condition to do that work. Carnegie and Frick have more money than I have, but I'm getting more value for my dollars than they are.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

Money ain't everything.