Riley Keough Quotes

Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they'd done.

No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.

I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.

I wouldn't sacrifice my business for no acting career because my business is something, ultimately, that I know I'm going to pass down to my kids, and that's most important to me than anything else in the world. I can't pass an acting career down to my children.

I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.

From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.

When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.

I guess if you are making more money than your mom and dad, you can set your own boundaries.

Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.

I sometimes think that the only person fit to inherit wealth is the person who doesn't need an inheritance - the person who would create his own fortune no matter what his start in life - and have come to view inherited wealth as an affliction.

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.

We're thrifty. We can live off our interest, save the principal, and let the kids go off and have a hoot.

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother's house. When my mother passed away, I wanted to buy it from the rest of my family and keep the house in the family. That was the only reason I even attempted writing for money.

I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn.

Money equals freedom.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.

Before I really even understood what the term meant, I wanted to be wealthy. I wanted to be able to drive the beautiful old Rolls-Royces my father admired when I was a child.

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.

They get, you know, whatever they want from their earnings, and their earnings go into their own company.

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

I do think that people ought to have some control over their money, rather than the government, just mandating to them how they're going to invest their money.

I never wanted to rely on my family for money.

To me, money is independence. It gives you freedom to do what you really want to do. It allows you to not be dependent on anyone or anything, and so you can be yourself and follow your passion.