David Geffen

I never felt I was too protective. I felt I was functioning as a dam against the river of sh*t that comes pouring down on artists, and it was a job that I took very seriously.

Is there anybody more ambitious than Hillary Clinton?

I have no talent except for being able to enjoy and recognize it in others.

I must have had a dozen jobs and I got fired from all of them.

Why not blame the libraries? They’re full of violent books.

I think everybody thought I was crazy that I quit my job and started a management company in which I was managing one client – Laura Nyro.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money

Money gives me the creeps and mildly embarrasses me. I get paid too much anyway.

[On Roberts saying ‘I don’t know if I want to give up my whole management company and take it apart.’] Don’t be stupid. I’ll make you more money than you’ve made alone.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Money’s only something you need in case you don’t die tomorrow.

[on money] It cannot buy you happiness. Some independence, yes.

I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed!

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten

Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.

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

The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles’ heel. But if you don’t need money and you don’t need fame, then you’re free.

Money without brains is always dangerous.