Jackie Chan Quotes

Human nature doesn't change. When enough people are comfortable enough financially, there is going to be human nature that wants to spend more money on better quality and, to some degree, status symbols as well.

Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

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

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

How many BMWs do you need? How many Rolex watches you gonna wear in your lifetime, for crying out loud? What is it about that kind of desire? I don't understand it.

I don't think spending money is a guarantee for anything.

I'm not a materialistic person at all, but I always want the next thing; I've got a nice toolbox, but I still want another set of spanners.

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

When love and adventure are finished, it's nice to have getting and spending to fall back on.

Money is sensual.

I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

Money? I lost all taste for it.

I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.

I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young.

Most of the things we buy are wants. And we call them needs, but they're wants.

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

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

Money is important. It is an important resource to have to help us build the life we want, but we overvalue it.