Diane Hendricks Quotes

People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'

One of my motivations in life is to be a billionaire.

I got it tatted on me, 'born broke, die rich.'

I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

I was never money conscious. I would never have succeeded if I thought I was going to be a millionaire.

I never set money as a goal. It was a result.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.

If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

I always had dreams. I knew I wanted to have money to buy things at the flea market. That's worked out well.

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain - do something to make more money yourself.

Make as much money as you can. It really does help. I don't know why it's terrible to say, but it's true.

I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there's no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it!

Understand and accept the cycles of money. The setbacks you may have today or next year will not keep you from financial freedom. If you hold on to your goals and dreams, you will get there.

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.

You can't do business without money, of course, because that's how it works, but I'm not in business only for money.