Imelda Marcos Quotes

I'm blessed to have these billions of dollars.

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

It's a great story for us whenever an entrepreneur makes a crazy amount of money and we get to tell the world about it. For the entrepreneur? Not so much. Hitherto unknown relatives, entrepreneurs seeking angel investments, money managers and supposed baby-mamas all come out of the woodwork with dollar signs in their eyes.

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.

How to become a millionaire? Become a billionaire first.

Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don't care what anyone else thinks.

If I was as rich as Rockefeller I'd be richer than Rockefeller, because I'd do a bit of window cleaning on the side.

To me, my studio is my trap house. That's where I trap out of; that's where I hustle. That's where I make my money.

You can have a big hit and not get rich.

I know of at least two black women who are billionaires: Sheila Johnson, who co-founded BET, and Oprah Winfrey. And I know of hundreds of black women whose net worth is over $1 million.

When I was 12 I worked with someone - it was actually an English teacher at my school, John Woodward. He was the only teacher in the school to have a top-of-the-range Porsche and all the trappings of success, so it was very interesting for me to find out how he did it. He was probably the wealthiest English teacher in the community.

Making the first million is hard; making the next 100 million is easy.

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

I have two people that I mainly look up to: Magic Johnson is one of them. He just blew everything out of the water. He didn't make much money in basketball, but since basketball has been over, he's investing in the community and making a lot of money at the same time. The next one I look up to is Sean Combs, who has always been a hustler.

You can't be no philanthropist, no Warren Buffett, unless you make something first.

My personal goal is to be a billionaire.

Dad was a pure entrepreneur. The dinner conversations weren't like, 'Did the Yankees win today?'

I want to have a catalogue or a share in a company. I'm trying to take my family's name from lower-middle class to aristocracy. I have my sights set high.

I built a net worth of more than $10 billion. I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I'm very proud of the job I did.

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!

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility.

I'd be a billionaire if I could get a dollar for all the bullsh*t that I hear a day.

Just to pile up money for my own sake, I just can't view that as good citizenship.

Being an entrepreneur doesn't make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn't mean that you're successful. It just means that you're interesting.

He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.