James Lendall Basford

finally know what distinguishes man from other beasts: financial worries.

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren’t trying to change the world. That’s what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I’ve known in my life. That’s just the truth.

I don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn’t be enough to go around.

I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

Money is the best deodorant.

Cocaine is God’s way of saying you’re making too much money.

I’m rich beyond my wildest dreams.

The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles’ heel. But if you don’t need money and you don’t need fame, then you’re free.

I don’t like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.