John Nelson

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

I was so poor growing up, if I wasn’t a boy, I’d have had nothing to play with.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Too much money ain’t enough money.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money’s sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it’s just about a number. It’s never been anything I understood.

Never spend your money before you have it.

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.

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.

The point is, you can never be too greedy.

The best thing I know about me, is that I’m rich

We didn’t actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.