Abraham Cowley Quotes

I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.

Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money.

In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

Even though I made $800 million, I am still grounded.

I'm grateful to be successful, and I'm grateful that we can make a living, and I hope we can maintain our integrity forever. That's really my only dream. The notion of bigness or smallness, I feel like that comes and goes in such waves that are kind of out of my control.

I've never had big diamonds; I never had big cars.

I'm sure I could have been a rich man, but I never was.

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

Thank you for making me nouveau riche.

Money brings you security and choice. You can make decisions in a different way if you have a lot of money. But when you have nothing, you have a naivety, and a more fearless attitude because you have nothing to lose.

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.

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.

Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

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.

I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.

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

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

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

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.

Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.

I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'