Imelda Marcos Quotes

What would I do with money? I have enough for my needs. I don't want any more. If I had a lot, I would have to care for it, worry about it.

I'm sure I could have been a rich man, but I never was.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.

I am fortunate to have enough money not to have to worry about the necessities of life. Beyond that, I try to think about money as little as possible.

I wouldn't change a thing - except my bank balance.

I prefer to stay poor.

Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK.

I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'

Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money.

I grew up in Harlem Grant projects, and I didn't have a whole lot then. I've always been good about only getting what I need, not what I want. Just because someone else has something, I don't feel the need to.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don't have a short-term payback.

With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I'm comfortable with money and it's comfortable with me.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

I want my money to be different. I'm not trying to have rapper money. My goal is to be able to get everything from the world that I can get.

Repeat after me: 'There is a very limited amount of easy money.'

Even though I made $800 million, I am still grounded.

That is sort of the backbone for 'Star-ving.' People just assumed that I am completely loaded. I do all right. I have to be careful.

I'm glad to have a couple a quid in my pocket to be able to enjoy life.

With the money thing it is mad. As a young kid earning so much, having a house and driving a nice car it is nice but it is something I keep level-headed about.

I come from a family who didn't have much money but raised me to believe that money wasn't the most important thing in the world. We had enough; we were happy.

I remember my mom sitting at our kitchen table, paying bills with a small smile. She'd sigh and say, 'I'm so blessed to be able to pay these.' She knew it was about what you have.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.