T. Harv Eker Quotes
If you are going to work hard anyway, you might as well get rich...and the quicker the better!
Eker, T. Harv. SpeedWealth: How to Stop Earning a Living and Start Creating Wealth. Peak Potentials Training, 2001, p. 7.
Likely misattributed. The phrase was popularized by the writer Orville Schell in "To Get Rich Is Glorious: China in the '80s" (1984) but Schell never actually attributed the words to Deng, telling the L.A. Times's Evelyn Iritani in 2004 that it merely "grew out of the zeitgeist" of China's economic reforms.
Eaton, who was the American consul to Tunis during the years leading up to the Barbary War, decided along with his fellow consul, James Cathcart, to use their diplomatic leverage to their benefit by getting involved in Tunisian trade.
T. Harv Eker is an author, businessman and motivational speaker known for his theories on wealth and motivation. He is the author of the book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind published by HarperCollins.