Riyad Mahrez Quotes

We definitely weren't poor growing up, but we weren't rich.

Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.

Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.

I never wanted to rely on my family for money.

We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house.

Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get too excited with big things.

If I have enough money to eat I'm good.

In all honesty, I grew up a certain way. I never had to worry about money... that was my reality.

I know all I really wanna do is get money and take care of my family.

We were always a middle-class family who took pride in our little set-up.

I still belong to a middle class family; middle class is a mindset than your financial status.

My parents found good paying jobs, educated me and my brother in wonderful public schools, and entered the middle class.

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.

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money.

Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

Boy, we'll get Raymond out and we won't go hungry anymore.

I don't feel like a wealthy person. Other people think of me as a wealthy person, but I don't. I feel the same as when I was a fifth-year associate trying to make partner at Lehman Brothers. I haven't changed.

To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.

I wasn't raised with money, so I had to get used to having it. I think I've adjusted to it pretty well.

It's OK, I guess, if you really need the money, but luckily, I'm not in that position.

I always wanted to make sure my parents didn't have to work again for the rest of their lives.

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