Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.

Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.

I was the boy next door who always knew what it meant to have no money. That changed when I turned professional. I was crazy.

It's not about the pennies as such, but what I've been able to create for the family. I have done that better than I could have ever dreamed.

I came from nothing. I came from the projects and welfare and ended up a millionaire with no frame of reference. I was bound to hit a wall sooner or later.

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

By 25, I was a millionaire.

I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.

How to become a millionaire? Become a billionaire first.

I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.

Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.

One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.

When the first million came in, I felt, 'My God, now I'm really independent.' That was a fantastic experience.

The success of Wipro has made me a wealthy person.

From having no money and coming from a very proud working class family, it was tough. But then all of a sudden we had loads and loads of cash. I realised that this was a great opportunity to do what I love for a living. I was going to tournaments up and down the country and I was able to win anything from five to seven thousand pounds.

Madam Walker was a woman who transformed herself in a very American, rags-to-riches way.

Wayne Messam does not have any financial problems and is a classic American Success Story.

Nobody knows this, but the first actual purchase, after I signed my deal and called my bank account and heard how much money was in there - 'cause I was so broke and hungry - was Taco Bell.

'Born to Do It' took a kid out of a council estate and put my mum into a home of her own. It changed my whole family's situation, and all from doing something that I loved.

One of the first things I bought when I made 'Roseanne Show' money was a farm in Iowa.

I've been able to help my family financially since making my first hit record. I bought my parents a house. My husband and I have a property in Portugal and one in Mumbles, Wales, and my family are always coming out to visit us. It has been fantastic to have such a successful career and to have been able to help everyone.

People who don't get rich are lazy or just have other priorities.

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

At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.

I've made millions of dollars with the body I have, so where's the pain in that?