Carl Lewis Quotes

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

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.

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 absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?

Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write.

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

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

Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.

Make money, get rich. Enrichissez-vous.

I've always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

I don't exactly know the moment that I was a millionaire but it was in my twenties.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man.

The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.

If you're broke, you don't want to rap about being broke; you gonna rap about hustling and getting that bread.

In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Go where the money is... and go there often.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

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.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.