Quotes About Perspective

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

Remember what being an adult is: It has nothing to do with money or awards.

I'm someone who'd never base how happy I am on how much money I have, or how good a restaurant is because of how posh it is.

I don't think of work as work and play as play. It's all living.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

If Bill Gates woke up with Oprah's money he'd jump out the window.

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

I never count my money. I think that's your job.

Time is more important to me than money.

Money itself isn't lost or made. It's simply transferred from one perception to another.

At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

People are always asking me how much I'm worth. Well, all I can say is, I've got enough money to last me the rest of my life. As long as I die in the next 20 minutes.

Money is not my business; my thinking is my business. I don't have any other business.

Changing how you think costs you no money and it takes no special talent. It does take a commitment on your part to be different.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

A Man that wants Money thinks none can be unhappy that has it.

I don't think it's because of my eyes, my beautiful eyes. (on Henry staying at Arsenal for the money)

I enjoy money. You got to know how to enjoy it, though. A lot of people enjoy it the wrong way: They spend it all.

I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any normal occupation, regardless of the amount.