Quotes About Perspective

We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

I always give homeless people money, and my friends yell at me, 'He's only going to buy more alcohol and cigarettes.' And I'm thinking, 'Oh, like I wasn't?'

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

All my life's about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn't cost very much money.

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'

I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.

There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

What are eight million dollars compared to the love of eight million Cubans?

Money isn't the most important thing. It is important, of course. I am not Mahatma Gandhi.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

When somebody says it's not about the money, it's about the money.

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.

One says that money doesn't buy happiness. Without a doubt, one was speaking of the money of others.

You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people that doesn't.

Money isn't everything, Mortimer.

It is so difficult to mix with artists! You must choose business men to talk to, because artists only talk of money.

Having money isn't everything, not having it is.

Money is not everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.