Chris Moneymaker Quotes

Money is just the poor man's credit card.

A lot of people around me were really staggeringly rich, which I never have been. I walked in between the raindrops of real money, but I've stayed happy.

I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.

One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.

When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.

I wasn't rich.

I make all that money and it ain't enough. I gotta make more to help all the people around me.

I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.

Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.

If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it is managed, who has it, who deserves it, and what it means to a character, male or female.

It is true that rich people can spend more money than middle class people, but there's this upper limit on what we can spend. I drive a very nice car, but it's only one car. I don't own a thousand, even though I earn a thousand times the median wage. I have a few jackets, not a few thousand.

Women like signs of money and education - things that indicate that not only is this guy going to have some resources, but he's also willing to share them.

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

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

I've never had money before in my life. Ever. Never, ever.

I come from a really poor family, and when I started doing campaigns, it changed everything for my family. I am not complaining; I had a beautiful childhood - we didn't have a lot of money, but there was always food on the table, and my parents saved money so that in the holidays we would all get in the car and drive to the mountains.

I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things that give them access to the club constituted by the people who are in their tax bracket.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

The secrecy surrounding wealth and the anxiety of talking about money is absurd. If you are rich and you live well and you spend money and it is an essential part of your lifestyle, then you shouldn't be ashamed of talking about it. You shouldn't be ashamed of it. And I think you should accept it and be honest and open about it.

'Billionaire' is basically about, you know, like 'Brewster's Millions.' It's me talking about what would happen if I would somehow manage to become a billionaire. What would I do with the money? Don't get it wrong, I'm far from a billionaire. I think I just made it out the 'thousandaire' category.

Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

I've lived in New York when I've had nothing, and I've lived in New York when I had money, and New York changes radically depending on how much money you have. It's the texture of life.

A man is nowhere without money.

I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility. I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.