Michael Heisley Quotes

I know I'm intellectually capable of finding a series of things and making hundreds of millions. I have to get there and do it. Carefully. Legally.

You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can't do one of those three things, you ain't going to get any money.

Go where the money is... and go there often.

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.

Every decision I make is, 'How is this helping me become a billionaire?'

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

It amazes me how quickly you can earn money.

Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to play.

I'm working full-time on my job and part time on my fortune. But it won't be long before I'm working full-time on my fortune. . . can you imagine what my life will look like?

I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

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

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 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 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.

Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write.

If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.

The success of Wipro has made me a wealthy person.

When you look at billionaires, many of them share one characteristic: They were not born billionaires.

The only thing I did well was learn how to make money.

The basketball great Kobe Bryant started his own venture-capital firm. LeBron James has rebranded himself as not just an athlete but also an investor and entrepreneur.

Floyd has done a lot for me financially and has taught me a lot about business. He did great in making money during his career and he tells me a lot of what he's working on.

You can't just wish to be a millionaire; you have to figure out how to earn it.