Quotes About Perception

We have somehow deluded ourselves into thinking that wealth is wisdom

I hate when people call me a socialite because you have to have money to be a socialite, which I don't have.

Housewives spend more money than their husbands make, so that other people think their husbands earn more money than they really do.

You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.

In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.

I don't like the way I ever appear on TV.

A lack of money is never, ever, ever a problem. A lack of money is merely a symptom of what is going on underneath.

One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.

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

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.

Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.

Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.

It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.

He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.

So many bands are like, 'I'm real because I'm dirty.' If you have money for guitars, you can afford soap.

When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let's be frank about it, it is enslavement.

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

When children see Michael Jackson they see a human being. When adults see him they see money.

To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

Don't you think its quite weird for Prince Harry, getting really stoned and seeing your grans face appearing on your money.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

When I was 16 I'd watch 'The Godfather,' but I didn't think, 'Right, I'm going to go down the barber's and get some protection money off him.'

Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall.