Richard J. Needham Quotes

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

At times, I can be a slave to money.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead money can furnish a meaningful life to sold-out souls is the supreme lie offered by the system of free enterprise.

The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money.

People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

Money? I lost all taste for it.

The passion for money is never fickle.

People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.

But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.

In the bubble decade, making money as an end in itself boomed as a calling among students at elite universities like Harvard, siphoning off gifted undergraduates who might otherwise have been scientists, teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs, artists or inventors.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the golden calf. It has too much money, seven of the top 10 banks, eight of the top 10 companies etc. It is too stingy, giving away less of its wealth than other countries. It is vulgar, a rich barbarian.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

Money is... I'm very conscious of it because I have it. It's powerful, man. It can change you ever so slightly, ever so slowly, and all of a sudden you're addicted to a million-dollar lifestyle and you've got no choice but to make a bad movie.