Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

If someone paid me a million dollars to drink a glass of milk, I wouldn't do it; maybe that's because I don't need the money.

My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.

I was a young-un when I got my first million. Then I realized if I got one, I could get two. If I could get two, I could get ten. If I could get ten, I could get a hundred.

You must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Earning money has a way of increasing financial intelligence quickly.

Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

I can understand wanting to have a million dollars but once you get beyond that, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger.

I rank money higher than social life or meaning because once you have money, those other things are easier to get. For example, you won't have much of a social life if you can't afford to do anything. And you can't make money if your health is a mess.

We may love money without having it, just as we may have money without loving it.

The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

Once you start making money you have to put things into perspective.

Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.

The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two works, industry and frugality.

I don't want money badly enough to work for it.

Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.

I don't have too much interest in teaching other people how to get rich. And that isn't because I fear the competition or anything like that - Warrenhas always been very open about what he's learned, and I share that ethos. My personal behavior model is Lord Keynes: I wanted to get rich so I could be independent, and so I could do other things like give talks on the intersection of psychology and economics. I didn't want to turn it into a total obsession.

I want to reach the status of becoming a mogul. And the only way you get there is by work.

There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!

I wish it grew on trees, but it takes hard work to make money.

I love money because I've earned it.

Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth

The dollars aren't so important... once you have them.

I can't help from making money, that is all.