Ricky Gervais Quotes

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages; and unless some of its missionaries penetrate there, and erect banking houses and other pious shrines, there is no knowing how long the inhabitants may remain in their present state of contented poverty.

I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.

When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.

The interesting thing about me is that I was born poor, and I've lived rich and I've lived poor, and I know how to do both. People think rich is better. I don't know.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

With the computer and stuff, the difference between a rich guy and a poor guy, to me, is nothing. Because I don't like big houses, I don't drive a car, so you know, I just live in a small apartment and I have my computer, which is really cool.

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

It's nice to be financially secure. Apart from that, I really don't care too much about money.

I don't care about money.

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.

A small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

I have found out in later years we [his family] were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

If I'm going through life broke, I might as well live in the company of cheerful idiots like actors.

When you talk about black entrepreneurship, you're talking about addressing the foundation of what's going on with our people when we don't have any financial power. Our basic needs aren't being met in a lot of cases, so there's no way we're going to be able to tap into our potential until we address those bottom-level base needs.

I try not to live my life thinking about money because money doesn't make me happy.

Having grown up a trailer park kid on welfare and food stamps, becoming jaded is impossible, although now I make a good living, which I'm not ashamed of; when you've been poor, it never leaves you.

Conversations about money, culture, power, class - it's at the center of my identity. I think it's a combination of being born to immigrant parents, growing up relatively poor, and really living in a world where formal institutions, like banks and anywhere that you had to sign a contract, was really feared and avoided at all costs.