David Geffen

It’s easy in music to tell what’s good. It’s hard to tell what’s bad.

[In 1990 on the president of MCA calling and saying ‘We’re going to make you the biggest offer this company has ever made, and I’m going to send it to you by messenger right now.’] It’s 1990. Send me a fax.

It isn’t about how tall you are or how good-looking you are or whether or not you can play football. It’s about whether you can create a relationship.

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it’s not that way at all, it’s something else.

I buy my clothes at J.Crew online. I’m a very casual guy.

We got killed in Newsweek.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Philanthropic efforts are among the best rewards you can have for a life well lived.

I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don’t want to – I just want to be at home with my family.

You fool! You’re 30 cents away from having a quarter!

Acting used to be how I paid the rent, but I sold a tequila company for a billion f**king dollars. I don’t need money.

Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

Steve Jobs didn’t give a shit about money, and I do give a shit about money. I wanted to have a lot of money. I thought it would change my life, which it did, but not in the ways I expected.

The point is, you can never be too greedy.

All money is a matter of belief.

If you want to make a million you don’t have to understand money, what you have to understand is people’s fears about money.

If a person gets his attitude towards money straight, it will straighten out almost every other area in his life.

It’s the same old story, all you think about is money.

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Don’t depend on anyone but yourself for providing financial security.