You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

I just hope people don’t get sick of us. I’m sick of us and I’m in Destiny’s Child.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

A development deal is where they’re giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they’ll put an album out.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they’ll say, ‚Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?‘ And they’ll start tailing me. And I don’t mind.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

Of course awards matter.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they’re like, ‚Hey! All right, all right, all right!‘

One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

Money for me today does not really matter.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

I hate being called an ‚icon.‘ I just don’t like it. That’s all there is to it.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle… and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable – those billionaire reports are a joke.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.