Pico Iyer Quotes

Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.

Pico Iyer

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• Making money is often more fun than spending it, though I personally have never regretted money I've spent on friends, new experiences, saving time, travel, and causes I believe in.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Make A Difference

• Real luxury is having the time to read endless stories in bed with my children. And I get that all the time. I'm so blessed.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Real
  • Children

• It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • World
  • Money
  • Fun

• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Career
  • Parents
  • Education

• Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
  • Country
  • Black

• I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • World
  • Country
  • Money

• The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Money
  • Powerful
  • Air

• We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Life
  • Money
  • Home

• One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Money
  • Want
  • Nothing

• Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Money
  • Basic
  • Traits

• But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Money
  • Doing
  • Year

• For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • People
  • Long
  • Poverty

• If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Money
  • Business
  • Giving

• I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• What Mexicans want and aspire to, is to go there and work temporarily and raise some money and come back home. That's what they want, so nobody's asking for those two, three million Mexicans that are illegally in the United States to become American citizens.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Work
  • Money
  • Home

• Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a Small House?

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Great
  • House
  • Small

• I'll never be a non-stumbler. I'll be a forgiven stumbler, but never a non-stumbler.

  

  Toby McKeehan

• When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have to use my left.

  

  Joe Frazier
  • Dad
  • Hand
  • Boy

• There is not a country on earth whose people don't deserve to be free and safe.

  

  John Ridley
  • People
  • Country
  • Free

• I want to deal with the homeless situation here in Washington, D.C. I think it is a travesty that we've got men - and increasingly women - families, across the street and the in shadow of this great capital, that shows a lack of concern, not just for the capital, but for American, when we are allowing something like that to happen.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Money
  • Poverty