Sandy Duncan Quotes

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

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

I always tried to live my life as though nothing changed. People would say, 'You can have a Rolls-Royce'. I'd say to that, 'What do I want with a Rolls-Royce when I can have a Volkswagen or a bike?' Some people get carried away with the juice.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.

I'm not overly greedy.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

A small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.

Money doesn't drive me.

After the first million, money isn't important.

I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

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

With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.