ATTRIBUTED
More money, more problems, gotta move carefully
Attributed
Widely credited, but not traced to a source.
This quote is widely credited to the author across popular collections, but we haven't traced it to a primary published source. The attribution is plausible, but unconfirmed — cite it with care.
Editorial Note
The sentiment here is unmistakably tied to The Notorious B.I.G., but the exact wording is not his. The idea comes from his 1997 hit "Mo Money Mo Problems," released on the posthumous album Life After Death, whose chorus runs "the more money we come across, the more problems we see" — a lament about how wealth and fame invited envy and danger. The compressed version "More money, more problems, gotta move carefully" is a paraphrase; the trailing "gotta move carefully" clause does not appear in the song or in any documented statement, interview, or writing by Christopher Wallace. Because he left no published prose, letters, or speeches, and the line surfaces verbatim only on quotation-aggregator sites, we can confirm the thought is authentically his while noting the phrasing is a popular rewording rather than a quotation from any primary source. We therefore list it as attributed.
