Mark Bradford Quotes

I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.

I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.

If I had married someone wealthy when I was young, I would have sunk like a stone. Being skint makes life quite clear. You've got to take that job.

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.

The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.

People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.

No, I'm not wealthy.

The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.

If nothing else, I have money.

He that is rich is wise.

To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.

If you're broke, you don't want to rap about being broke; you gonna rap about hustling and getting that bread.

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over 'The Wall Street Journal' or the 'Financial Times' and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.

Awards do not pay the mortgage.

When you have a lot of money, there's so many places you can go to manage your money. But when you don't have money, mathematically you actually need a financial plan more. You can't really afford to make mistakes. So why is this such a luxury product?

If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.