Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.

My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren't fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs, fancy jewelry and fun fetes simply weren't enough to fill my soul.

I'm O.K. having a comfortable life. I don't have to live in a mansion and drive Aston Martins or Ferraris.

It's Faster horses, Younger women, Older whiskey and More money.

You want the people to know, but you don't really want the things behind it. I have everything I ever wanted. I never wanted a big house. I never wanted a Ferrari. I mean, as I proceeded with the music, I started liking Ferraris...

Maybe money can't buy love - but it can get you practically everything else.

Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.

We are living in a material world and I'm a material girl.

All the Hollywood bullshit and accolades and money really doesn't matter. It just gives you a slightly nicer house and slightly nicer food and slightly shinier hair.

People don't want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.

But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth ten times more, I should guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear!

For me, life is not about gold taps and marble all over the place.

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.

You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing.

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

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.

When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.

No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue.

I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that.

Money and good life had never been my goal.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.