Quotes About Priorities

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.

I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.

I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career.

I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture.

Italy's youngsters complain, apparently, about having to live at home until they are 72 but that's because they spend all their money on suits and coffee and Alfa Romeos rather than mortgages.

Everything changes, money rules. In my era, if you were successful, you were going to make money, but you never worried about it.

And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.

You can have all the money in the world. You can be a multi-billionaire, but if you do not have your health it means nothing. Your health is the No. 1 important thing in your life.

Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over.

I don't have a lot of money. I get some from Mad Men. But I don't think I'm rich.

Don't emphasise money if you don't have much; be happy

People say, "Do you know how much a million dollars is?" I don't have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?

I don't care how much money you have in the world. It's not about that. It's all about time.

To me, money is absolutely irrelevant.

money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age.

Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money.

If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.

Rich people have the potential to reach a point where they see money as the source of their safety and security.

I don't want money. What the hell's money good for? You can't drive it and you can't eat it and it won't even fix a flat.

We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it.

I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.

Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.

I don't care much about the money at all. Frankly, if I get the chance to kiss someone in a movie, they wouldn't need to pay me at all.