Sherman Alexie Quotes

My idea of rich is that you can buy every book you ever want without looking at the price and you're never around assholes. That's the two things to really fight for in life.

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.

Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.

That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

I'm a very wealthy man.

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

I am fairly rich. Money's very handy, let's face it.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

I joined a band because I didn't like school, and there's nothing else I'd rather have done. If I really wanted to make money, I'd be in real estate. But I'm rich enough. I have a son and daughter, a lovely home, and if I see something I like, I can buy it. That's rich enough.

With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I'm comfortable with money and it's comfortable with me.

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich.

When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.

If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man.

I had more money than I could spend in million lifetimes.

Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does buy happier.

I always thought it is a bit of a balloon, how rich we are.

Abundance is about being rich, with or without money.

What shop did this book come from? she asked. Her father was looking worried at the cooker. He always got rice wrong. I don't know, Brooksie, he said, I don't remember. That was unimaginable, not remembering where a book has come from! and where it was bought from! That was part of the whole history, the whole point, of any book that you owned! And when you picked it up later in the house at home, you knew, you just knew by looking and having it in your hand, where it came from and where you got it and when and why you'd decided to buy it.