John Caudwell Quotes

If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.

When you are young and impecunious, society conditions you to exchange time for money, and this is quite as it should be. Very few people are hurt by having to work for a living. But as you become more affluent, it somehow is very, very difficult to reverse that process and begin trading money for time.

Let's face it, we're not about to earn our way to wealth. That's a mistake millions of Americans make. We think that if we work harder, smarter, longer, we'll achieve our financial dreams, but our paycheck alone-no matter how big-isn't the answer.

We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.

Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.

That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.

I don't really think about my future. I don't really worry about anything. I just try not to spend all my money.

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

Getting rich is about fun. It's a game, and you have to treat it that way.

Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.

If you want to retire young and retire rich, it is very important that your money be like a bird dog, going out every day and bringing home more and more assets.

Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

We don't manage money for anyone else. We bear responsibility only for our own risks.

I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.

To some extent I could identify with that because I kind of just made my money and got out.

I try to stay ahead of things, if you know what I mean. I take the money I make and reinvest it.

I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me.

I'm a very wealthy man.

I want to make as much money as I possibly can so that when my day comes, my mother and sister is fine. My close friends are fine. They don't have to worry about anything ever again.

Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.

I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?

Go where the money is... and go there often.

I make money, and I don't need money.