Sam Ewing Quotes

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.

By having much, you are fitted to have more.

The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

God didn't make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God... If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

Material things don't matter.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

The more we have the less we own.

The more things you own, the more people you need to employ.

Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.

After I had money, I realized about all that all the things I thought I wanted that I don't need a lot of stuff. If there's anything I get excited by, it's a nice car.

I've collected a lot of things throughout my life, and I think that's more being a hoarder than being passionate about them, and so I've tried to stop that.

Cecil B. DeMille worshipped the almighty buck.

I like nice things. I've always had nice things.

I don't collect things for the sake of collecting. I don't really see the point.

Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.

A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.

The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.