Jim Gaffigan Quotes

No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much.

Jim Gaffigan

• Money
• Frustration
• Rejection

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• If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • Future
  • Dream

• Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Life
  • Money
  • Fire

• Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Money
  • Marketing
  • Decisions

• It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Money
  • Suicide
  • Tried

• Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Stress
  • Crime
  • Frustration

• At the end of the day, it's all about money.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Money
  • Day
  • End

• You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Money
  • Free
  • Always

• I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Life
  • Money
  • Simple

• The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Women
  • Money
  • Fight

• I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Money
  • Fame
  • Craving

• Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Money
  • May
  • Man

• Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• 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

• Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Education

• For artists, the majority of the money we make comes from us being on the road and touring.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Money
  • Road
  • Touring

• I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • Money
  • Never
  • Goal

• I wouldn't call Loopt a failure. It didn't turn out like I wanted, for sure, but it was fun, I learned a lot, and I made enough money to start investing, which led me to my current job. I don't regret it at all.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Money
  • Job
  • Fun

• I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It's kind of tough.

  

  Manute Bol
  • Money
  • Myself
  • Tough

• I have some figures which compare the cost of one kilo of airplane compared to one kilo of rice. One kilo of airplane costs thirty thousand US dollars and one kilo of rice is seven cents. And if you want to pay for your one kilo of high-tech products with a kilo of rice, I don’t think we have enough.

  

  Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie
  • Thinking
  • Money
  • High

• I talked to Grant Hill, and I told him, 'I played against you a lot, and now, hopefully, I'm getting to coach a player like you. Jabari has the opportunity to be a special player in this league. But it's not handed to you. He's going to work, and our jobs are to make him better each day.'

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Player

• Hamm: Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!

  

  Samuel Beckett

• In the Darwinian world, self-preservation is the ultimate shiny good.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • World
  • Good
  • Self

• No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Money
  • Frustration
  • Rejection