Marshall Field Quotes

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.

It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich.

Do you want to be rich or not? Let's get focused on that, buddy

It’s not getting the million that’s important, it’s what it makes of you to achieve becoming a MILLIONAIRE.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth.

I'm not the type to pat myself on the back and all that, but somebody has to be lucky, right? When I got to Dallas, I was struggling - sleeping on the floor with six guys in a three-bedroom apartment. I used to drive around, look at the big houses, and imagine what it would be like to live there and use that as motivation.

My parents had to work hard, and I was always looking for a way to make it big - for their sakes as well as my own.

I don't think it changes who you are inside. But when you have a lot of money, it makes a lot of things easier. That's why everyone wants to be successful.

Sleep is for those people who are broke.

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!

I never thought about becoming wealthy. It never crossed my mind. What really motivated me was to try to accomplish something.

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

Don't become a philosopher before you become rich.

I will be rich or I will die trying.

Get rich or die tryin'.

I want to get rich and die old.

There are people who want to become rich; they become rich. If you persist you can fulfill any kind of stupidity

It's no secret that my family was very, very poor, and I don't want that for my life or my children's life certainly. But some might say I could relax a bit more and know that that's not going to happen to me. I'm not going to end up in a car.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back yard.

I'm not ashamed of being successful. You know, they criticized Romney for being ashamed of it. I think we've got to inspire our kids that we shouldn't be ashamed to be successful.

I will return and I will be a million.