top of page
"I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Money quotes

"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."

"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."

"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."

"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."

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

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

"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."
Explore more quotes by Sammy Davis, Jr.

"There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time."

"Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted."

"Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man."

"If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man."

"To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death."

"I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt."
bottom of page