top of page
More

"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."
Author Name
Personal Development

"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."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them."
Author Name
Personal Development

"To understand someone, find out how he spends his money."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There should be just enough egoism to accomplish one's work. Beyond that, any expanded egoism and money have great enmity. Money (Lakshmi) stays away from it."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."
Author Name
Personal Development

"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money."
Author Name
Personal Development

"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."
Author Name
Personal Development

"All about the fucking money... money... money... thinking it's for the good for your generation... but so far it's neither and for that and neither and for that... It's mostly for the worst of your generation and other's generations."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?"
Death

"Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them."
Fans

"I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'"
Want

"I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful."
Life

"The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical."
Money

"One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again."
Work

"I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'"
Coffee

"My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere."
Life

"I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting."
Desperation

"I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing."
Buying
bottom of page