Robert Orben Quotes

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.

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.

Money means a lot of respect. It means a lot of accomplishment and a lot of hard work.

That's what I'm tryin' to achieve. I want to be a heavyweight in this game, and I'm tryin' to get the big money. By the same token, the title 'Big Money Heavyweight' applies to everybody in the world. That's what everybody's tryin' to achieve.

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 deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

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.

When I started, all I wanted to do was make $3,000 per month. And because it wasn't about the money for me, I know that's why things worked out.

Money doesn't drive me.

Did we ever plan on being billionaires? No, but we wanted to be millionaires.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?

People don't mind if you have a lot of money if they know you're working for it.

I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.

When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.

When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

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

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

People say 'I want to be rich'. The question is, 'Are you willing to do what it takes?'

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

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

Even though I made $800 million, I am still grounded.

I don't think it changes who you are inside. But when you have a lot of money, it makes a lot of things easier. That's why everyone wants to be successful.

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