John Caudwell Quotes

I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

My family and I have been blessed with good fortune in the world of business. We've created quite a net worth. My children, two boys, have more money than they will ever need, and they aren't empire builders.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.

I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.

I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.

The right amount of money to leave children is enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing

I got a lot of money, but when you wealthy, that mean that your children is ballin', your grandchildren is ballin'.

My grandma told me that to be wealthy you need at least seven streams of income, so that's my goal. I have a big family. I want to take care of everybody.

We're thrifty. We can live off our interest, save the principal, and let the kids go off and have a hoot.

Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it's not about the money.

Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.

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

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

I'm a very wealthy man.

I never thought of myself as a wealthy person. I've thought of myself as a person who has had a lot of luck. I don't have the same stress that other people have, but there are too many things I could have done differently if wealth was what I was after. If I was all about money, I would have lived in L.A.

I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.

'Billionaire' is basically about, you know, like 'Brewster's Millions.' It's me talking about what would happen if I would somehow manage to become a billionaire. What would I do with the money? Don't get it wrong, I'm far from a billionaire. I think I just made it out the 'thousandaire' category.

No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.

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.