I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!
Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.
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 got the Hammer money, sweetie you can't touch this.
I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn't cry. Why would we cry? You didn't get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million.
I doubt that Donald Trump would be happier... if he was a different person. But Trump is always telling people how great his life is and about all the great things that he's done, and that's also all about his income. And that's also what we found. If you ask people how their lives are going, as a whole, it seems they tend to point to income.
There are self-made millionaires - their aspiration is first to make money. But the once that goal is achieved, they have to look for something and sometimes they become patrons of art or museums. And that is how the world should go.
I got the Pawnbroker of the Year award. They said I did more for the pawn business in one year than their media team, in 30 years, has been able to do.
My father gave me a very small loan in 1975, and I built it into a company that's worth many, many billions of dollars, with some of the greatest assets in the world, and I say that only because that's the kind of thinking that America needs.
Money means a lot of respect. It means a lot of accomplishment and a lot of hard work.
Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.
Any man who dies with more than $10000 to his name is a failure.
All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.
Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
Good workemen are seldome rich.
Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.
You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.
Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.
I intend to be, the richest man in the world.
My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.
Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
Those who create wealth should be shown the greatest respect.
I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money
Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
