The biggest shock when I lost it all was the realization that so much of my life had been out of my control. When I started to make the money back, I vowed that it would never happen again. I bought things only when I could afford them. There was no big mortgage, no cars on hire purchase. I remember buying a TR6 sports car for £6,000, and funnily enough, it gave me more pleasure than the Porsche ever had.
— Simon Cowell
British television host, A&R executive, television producer, music publishing house owner

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
— Donald Trump
American tycoon, television host, socialite, author

I have to value every single thing. I have food every day on the table; I have a family, friends, health—all things without which it wouldn't matter how many roles I get to play.
— Penélope Cruz
Spanish actress

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
— George Herman "Babe" Ruth
American Major League baseball player (1895 – 1948)

I'm convinced that a lot of people simply don't know what's available out there and how it is possible to find a job and work your way up if you are willing to accept responsibility for your life. I know what it's like to be on the bottom. I've been broke. I've been fired seven times from jobs. And I don't even have a college degree. But I didn't blame anyone else for my problems. I knew that if I didn't try to solve them on my own or with the help of friends or family members, no one else was going to take care of me.
— Rush Limbaugh
American radio talk show host, writer, entertainer, social commentator

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
— Ayn Rand
Russian-born American novelist, philosopher, playwright, screenwriter (1905 – 1982)

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
— John Wayne
American actor (1907 – 1979)

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
— Carl Sandburg
American poet, writer, editor (1878 – 1967)

When we were growing up, we were so poor that our heritage was the only thing we had. Mama would say, "Kids, pour more water in the soup. Better days are coming."
— Ashley Judd
American actress, YouthAIDS Global Ambassador

The history of our civilization, the great advances that made it possible, is not a story of cynics or doom criers. It is a gallant chronicle of the optimists, the determined people, men and women, who dreamed great dreams and dared to try whatever it took to make them come true.
— Ronald Reagan
American actor, radio announcer, spokesman, Screen Actors Guild president, elected Governor of California, elected President of the United States of America

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
— Johnny Cash
American country singer, songwriter (1932 - 2003)

Life is a long lesson in humility.
— Sir James M. Barrie

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
— Emily Dickinson
American poet (1830 - 1886)

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.
— Garth Brooks
American country singer

The further through life I drift, the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.
— Ogden Nash
American humorist, poet, lyricist (1902 – 1971)

I'm a very conservative person. I drive my cars for 10 years until they have 100,000 miles on them. To me, feeling comfortable means having way more than I need in the bank.
— Teri Hatcher
American actress

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, travel writer (1850 – 1894)

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
— Dorothy Parker
American writer, screenwriter, poet, critic (1893 - 1967)

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
— Agatha Christie
British crime drama novelist, playwright (1890 – 1976)

The man who views the world at 50 the same way he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
— Mohammed Ali
American boxer

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
— Helen Keller
American author, activist, lecturer; first deaf/blind person to graduate from a US college (1880 – 1968)

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
— Will Smith
American actor, rap singer, film producer

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
— Helen Keller
American author, activist, lecturer; first deaf/blind person to graduate from a US college (1880 – 1968)

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.
— Humphrey Bogart
American actor (1899 - 1957)

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
— Ayn Rand
Russian-born American novelist, philosopher, playwright, screenwriter (1905 – 1982)

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
— Robert Frost
American poet (1874 - 1963)

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
— Séan O'Casey
Irish dramatist, memoirist (1880 – 1964)

For some people, money is a foreign film without subtitles.
— Nicolas Cage
American actor

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
— Katharine Whitehorn
British journalist, writer, columnist

Don't let your mouth write no check that your tail can't cash.
— Bo Diddley
American singer, guitarist, songwriter (1928 - 2008)

I'd like to be rich enough so that I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off.
— Andy Rooney
American writer, television spokesman, social commentator

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
— John Wayne
American actor (1907 – 1979)

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am doing right?
— Charles M. Schulz
American cartoonist, illustrator, writer (1922 – 2000)

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
Russian-born American author, professor of biochemistry, science and science fiction writer (1920 - 1992)

A redneck died and left his entire fortune to his beloved wife. She couldn't touch it until she was fourteen.
— Jeff Foxworthy
American comedian, writer, actor, television host

Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.
— C. H. Spurgeon
British Reformed Baptist preacher, writer (1834 – 1892)

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved—loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
— Victor Hugo
French French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France (1802 – 1885)

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone.
— Reba McEntire
American country singer, songwriter, actress

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
— David Brinkley
American television newsman (1920 – 2003)

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
— Vincent van Gogh
Dutch Post-Impressionist artist (1853 – 1890)

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
— Oprah Winfrey
American television host, business woman, actress

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
— Mae West
American actress, writer, screenwriter, vaudeville performer, sex symbol (1893 - 1980)

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
— Woody Allen
American filmmaker, comedian, screenwriter, actor

Simplicity is the glory of expression.
— Walt Whitman
American poet, essayist, journalist, humanist (1819 – 1892)

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.
— Halle Berry
American actress

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.
— Sid Caesar
American actor, comedian, producer, writer

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
— W. Somerset Maugham
British playwright, novelist, short story writer (1874 – 1965)

When an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
— Rosalind Russell
American actress (1907 – 1976)

Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.
— Dick Gregory
American comedian, social activist, writer, entrepreneur

The best way to know God is to love many things.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Dutch Post-Impressionist artist (1853 – 1890)

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.
— Michael Jordan
American basketball player

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would he this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me."
— Ann Landers
American advice columnist (1918 – 2002)

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
— Stanley Kubrick
American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer (1928 – 1999)

The trick is not how much pain you feel—but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
— Erica Jong
American writer, teacher

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.
— Ray Bradbury
American writer of fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mysteries

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word—excellence. To know how to do something is to enjoy it.
— Pearl S. Buck
American sinologist, Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer (1892 - 1973)

Money is a terrible master, but an excellent servant.
— P. T. Barnum
American showman, circus businessman (1810 – 1891)

Wealth hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.
— Oprah Winfrey
American television host, business woman, actress

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
— H. L. Mencken
American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American culture (1880 – 1956)

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
— George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, novelist, music and literary critic (1856 – 1950)

Success demands singleness of purpose.
— Vincent Lombardi
American NFL football coach

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
— Oscar Levant
American pianist, composer, author, comedian, actor (1906 - 1972)

Life itself is the proper binge.
— Julia Child
American television chef, writer (1912 - 2004)

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
American novelist, short stories writer (1896 – 1940)

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.
— Voltaire
French Enlightenment writer, essayist, philosopher (1694 – 1778)

We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was.
— Bernard Malamud
American novelist (1914 - 1986)

I don't care if you're brown, black, green, or from Mars; the one thing that every American believes in and will fight for is freedom. And when that freedom is under assault, particularly by a government, Americans will rally.
— Rush Limbaugh
American radio talk show host, writer, entertainer, social commentator

I believe in the 'Walmart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
— Garth Brooks
American country singer

Have no fear of perfection. You'll never reach it.
— Salvador Dali
Spanish Catalan surrealist painter (1904 – 1989)

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
— E. B. White
American writer, author of children's books (1899 - 1985)

Money is a needful and precious thing—and, when well used, a noble thing—but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.
— Louisa May Alcott
American novelist (1832 – 1888)

A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained. It requires some training, perhaps, to accomplish this economy, but when once used to it, you will find there is more satisfaction in rational saving than in irrational spending.
— P. T. Barnum
American showman, circus businessman (1810 – 1891)

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
— Victor Hugo
French French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France (1802 – 1885)

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
— Will Rogers
American comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer, actor, cowboy (1879 – 1935)

There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
— Christopher Morley
American journalist, novelist, essayist, poet (1890 – 1957)

If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
— Johnny Carson
American television host, comedian, writer (1925 - 2005)

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
— John Wayne
American actor (1907 – 1979)

We should all do what in the long run gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
— E. B. White
American writer, author of children's books (1899 - 1985)

Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
— Charles M. Schulz
American cartoonist, illustrator, writer (1922 – 2000)

The root of all evil is not money, it's boredom.
— Paris Hilton
American heiress, socialite, actress, singer

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
— Sean O'Casey
Irish dramatist, memoirist (1880 – 1964)

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
— Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, cleric; became Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin (1667 - 1745)

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!
— Dolly Parton
American country singer, songwriter

I had a nest egg, but I lost it gambling. I was betting I'd be dead by now.
— Drew Carey
American actor, comedian, television host

I don't own anything that I'd be afraid to lose. Nothing material is that important.
— Kelly Clarkson
American singer, songwriter

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer, mystery and crime fiction novelist (1859 – 1930)

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
— Audrey Hepburn
Belgian-born, Dutch-raised actress, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador (1929 - 1993)

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
— Vince Lombardi
American NFL football coach

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
— Ronald Reagan
American actor, radio announcer, spokesman, Screen Actors Guild president, elected Governor of California, elected President of the United States of America

All our dreams can come true—if we have the courage to pursue them.
— Walt Disney
American cartoonist, filmmaker, director, voice actor, screenwriter, entrepreneur, philanthropist, businessman (1901 – 1966)

How come it's a penny for your thoughts but you have to put your two cents' worth in? Somebody's making a penny.
— Steven Wright
American comedian, actor, writer

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.
— Marilyn Monroe
American actress, singer, model, international sex symbol (1926 - 1962)

Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.
— Ray Charles
American pianist, rhythm & blues singer (1930 – 2004)

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
— Clint Eastwood
American actor, film director, producer, elected Mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things—not the great occasions—that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
— Bob Hope
English-born American comedian, actor, vaudeville and radio performer, humanitarian; noted for his work with the US Armed Forces and his numerous USO tours to entertain US military personnel during multiple wars (1903 - 2003)

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
— e. e. cummings
American poet, painter, essayist, author, playwright (1894 – 1962)

I never set out to be the second Mark Spitz. I only wanted to be the first Michael Phelps. I wanted to do something no one had ever done before.
— Michael Phelps
American Olympic gold-medal swimming champion; set record for most gold medals won in a single Olympic competition

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.
— Sylvia Plath
American poet, novelist, short story writer (1932 – 1963)

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
— Peter Jennings
Canadian-American journalist, television news anchorman

Procrastination is the fear of success... Because success is heavy, it carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.
— Denis Waitley
American motivational speaker, writer

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
— Charles Kingsley
British novelist, university professor, historian (1819 – 1875)

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.
— Dr. Joyce Brothers
American psychologist, advice columnist, television spokesperson

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
— Scott Hamilton
American Olympic gold-medal ice skating champion

Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.
— Spike Milligan
Anglo-Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright (1918 - 2002)

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.
— Donald Trump
American tycoon, television host, socialite, author

I'd like to live like a poor man, only with lots of money.
— Pablo Picasso
Andalusian-Spanish painter, draughtsman, sculptor (1881 - 1973)

I have great respect for money... I never get over the fact that sometimes I see more money being paid for a meal than my father earned in a week.
— Sean Connery
Scottish actor

There are people who have money and people who are rich.
— Coco Chanel
French fashion designer (1883 - 1971)

The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.
— Halle Berry
American actress

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
— Agatha Christie
British crime drama novelist, playwright (1890 – 1976)

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
— Dolly Parton
American country singer, songwriter

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
— John Barrymore
American actor (1882 – 1942)

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
— Johnny Cash
American country singer, songwriter (1932 - 2003)

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.
— Mike Todd
American filmmaker, theater producer (1909 – 1958)

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
— Dorothy Parker
American writer, screenwriter, poet, critic (1893 - 1967)