Norman Bangerter Quotes

I made a ton of money.

I cried all the way to the bank.

You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can't do one of those three things, you ain't going to get any money.

If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big.

I've had the most incredible luck in my career.

I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.

The great affair, we always find, is to get money.

As long as you're recording and they pay the fee, it's like a lottery ticket. You never stop trying.

The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.

If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.

If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.

Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.

We can't afford to stand pat while the world races by. The United States of America did not become the most prosperous nation on Earth by sheer luck or happenstance. We got here because each time a generation of Americans has faced a changing world, we have changed with it. We have not feared our future; we have shaped it.

I just feel fortune just to have been lucky enough, and worked hard enough, and blessed.

When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.

Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

Give everyone a chance to have a piece of the pie. If the pie's not big enough, make a bigger pie.

Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.

We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying the price at which they are offered to us. Every man wishes to be rich, but very few have the powers necessary to raise a sudden fortune, either by new discoveries, or by superiority of skill in any necessary employment; and among lower understandings many want the firmness and industry requisite to regular gain and gradual acquisitions.

The current food crisis is an opportunity for companies to engage in agriculture or biotechnology.

Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.

The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.

Fortune comes well to all that comes not late.

You is born lucky, and it's better to be born lucky than born rich, cause if you is lucky you can git rich, but if you is born rich and you ain't lucky you is liables to lose all you got.