David Jason Quotes

Money doesn't drive me.

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

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of life, have all the stuff you want. But there should be a ceiling on it-enough is enough!

I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.

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

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.

He chose to be rich by making his wants few, and supplying them himself.

There is always going to be someone more successful, richer, better looking, or with a nicer car.

If I have a roof over my head and if I'm cashing checks and choking some necks I'm always happy.

I always want more. I will always want to earn more.

No success will ever quench your thirst - my rich person's therapist told me that.

For me, success isn't even about money. It's about getting to do what you love and supporting yourself. Everything that comes after that is bonus, unless your only goal is to be rich. If that's your goal, you're going to find out that once you have a little bit, you want a lot. Then once you have a lot, you want a lot more.

I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

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

Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don't need it.

After the first million, money isn't important.

I'm someone who'd never base how happy I am on how much money I have, or how good a restaurant is because of how posh it is.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

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

He that is rich is wise.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,' you ask? I don't know... I've had so much, a son as president, two as senators, a son-in-law who's an ambassador... perhaps God doesn't permit that much.