Jimmy White Quotes

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

After being on 'Oprah' for a couple of months, I got my first royalty check for $1,478,392.17. I will never forget it. At the height of my career, I made $3.3 million. Unbelievable. From welfare in the projects to $3.3 million.

The year 2000, I was the richest for three days. So I know up and down.

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.

I've been lucky, man. I've been very lucky for 10 years, made a lot of money playing a game, a kids' game.

I remember being really poor until I got my first $250,000 check from Faberge. That was pretty nice; I put it in the bank, and from that moment on, there seemed to be a lot of champagne and limousines in my life.

Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.

I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.

It's human nature when you first make your big fortune to want to show off a bit. I don't begrudge that whatsoever.

I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.

I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.

I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.

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

I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.

I would never judge anyone for going anywhere for money.

By 25, I was a millionaire.

I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

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 had one year of struggle. My parents were always there, but I didn't want to rely on them. Now it's moving pretty fast. I'm not rich, but obviously this is fantastic. All I know to do with money is put it in a shoebox anyway.

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

The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

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.