William Gibson Quotes

Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.

If someone gives you $1,000,000 you'd better become a millionaire so you can keep the money. Success doesn't want to hang around incompetent people.

How to become a millionaire? Become a billionaire first.

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

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

Once we become wealthy, we tend to move away from what made us wealthy.

I'm not a millionaire. I have a high earning power, but I never did have any capital.

Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.

I don't exactly know the moment that I was a millionaire but it was in my twenties.

When I was 12 I worked with someone - it was actually an English teacher at my school, John Woodward. He was the only teacher in the school to have a top-of-the-range Porsche and all the trappings of success, so it was very interesting for me to find out how he did it. He was probably the wealthiest English teacher in the community.

I want people that made a fortune.

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

Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader.

We should be encouraging people to earn a lot of money. I do not know one wealthy person who does not spend money - and most of them employ other people.

There's a lot of money being generated by nerds right now. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, the list goes on and on. Nerds make more money than our government. And with money comes power.

Got a house on the hill, cost a couple of mill, Juicy J got bank like Uncle Phil.

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.

If someone hands you a million dollars, best you become a millionaire, or you won't get to keep the money.

I don't waste too much time philosophizing about wealth, I just recommend it to everyone.

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

If a woman is making $85,000 a year, putting aside 20% of her income, putting it in a bank, earning very little...Over the course of her life vs. investing, this can cost her $1.5 million, $2 million, $2.5 million. Life changing amounts.

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

We want to appeal to everyone and get rich quick. We want to be millionaires. I've got this plan to buy Tasmania you see.

The goal of truly rich people is to have massive wealth and abundance.

There are people who are not wealthy because they want to be comfortable.