Tim Duncan Quotes

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.

I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me.

If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.

I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.

I had a happy childhood, I didn't know about money then.

I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money.

Savings is an important tool because it can help the poor deal with the ups and downs of irregular earnings and help them build reserves for a rainy day.

Money for me today does not really matter.

The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

I do not give money for just mere hopes.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.

I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.

I never thought to ever ask for money. I was so stupid.

We all are faced by problems of 'How am I going to get the rent?' or 'Am I going to have this job six months from now?' It's very difficult to define in your life a victory.

You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn't figure largely in my world view.

I prefer to stay poor.

When it comes to comedy, it might be interesting to know why an airplane works, but really? Maybe it's better not to know why certain things work. Just fly the thing, and if nothing falls apart, you'll be fine.

The substitute for knowledge is money.