Bill Gates Quotes

Starting with a meagre amount of Rs 300 as a conductor, when I became an actor and started seeing huge moneys like Rs 3 or 4 lakhs, I thought I was 'an exclusive creation' by God, and he had made me like this. Later, I got the wisdom and realised that my time was good and things worked out! And I was also a normal human being like others.

I'm just a regular guy who had talent and the wherewithal to be able to hone that into something I can make money doing.

I like to think I've been a good example and an inspiration to some people. And some people say that about me, but I'm just going about my work and doing what I do best. I'm a very professional 'Me.'

Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more 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.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

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.

Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

It was never really one of my goals to gain tremendous amount of celebrity or make a tremendous amount of money necessarily.

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

You can have a big hit and not get rich.

Toward the end of my career, people started talking Hall of Fame, but still, you don't ever think you're going to end up there.

I don't talk about how many cars I'm going to drive, how many houses I've got. I just purely want to be the best I can be.

I've traveled the world, made a lot of money, met a lot of amazing people.

I want people that made a fortune.

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!

Forget the haters, just get ya money, just get ya weight up.

Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work!

There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

Think that you are part of a big construction called science and you are not just a chemist but you are scientist. Be modest but proud. Modest because you know you will not be able to solve other problems because your life is too short. But be proud because you are contributing to it. Some people will bring a small stone to the building and some people will bring a big one but nevertheless no one can take that stone away from you.

Mean Streets dealt with the American Dream, according to which everybody thinks they can get rich quick, and if they can't do it by legal means then they'll do it by illegal ones.

When I am told that I am a huge star, I accept it, knowing that success is relative - the films I do have to work.

I made a little money. And like the Bible says, I was enjoying the fruits of my labor. This is my comeback. This is me doing what I love to do.

Privately I think that I'm not really somebody who has a network television show. Celebrities are other people - Johnny Carson and Sylvester Stallone. I'm just a kid trying to make a living is the way I feel.