Liberace Quotes

I was brought up poor, but I've earned every cent in my bank account.

I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.

Ariana Grande is a billionaire before she's been an artist. You have to work to be able to appreciate what you have... what work did she ever have to do in her life?

I am not a product of privilege, I am a product of opportunity

I think a little tidbit I can give you is that I grew up with basically everything handed to me, except for my career. I worked for that.

No one has ever given me anything. No one gave me a tour card, no one gave me a US tour card, no one gave me a nice house and a Ferrari: I've had to work for every penny I have earned and I'm proud of that.

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.

Hard work. Well, that=s all right for people who don=t know how to do anything else. It=s all right for people who aren=t lucky. But once you==re lucky, you don=t have to work for other people. You make them work for you.

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.

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

I wasn't sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.

I am one of 40 grandchildren. What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.

I'm not a trust-fund type.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

For lots of people who became rich, they believe they earned their fortune through hard work. They don't think about society and only want to leave their fortune to their children.

I don't have to justify myself. I work a lot and I earn a lot.

I have inherited nothing. Everything Ann and I have we have earned the old-fashioned way.

I have spent some time talking to Rex Tillerson. He's an amazing human being. He's an American success story, not just in his business life. He's a rags-to-riches success story. He stated working at 8, lived in a one-bedroom house until the time he went to college, and grew to become the CEO of one of the world's largest companies.