Nicole Polizzi Quotes

I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it.

I think that in the earlier days, when I was a 'wantrepreneur,' I was really doing things because I thought what I wanted was to be rich.

I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.

In my case, the business chose me.

How much you accumulate is a byproduct of what you enjoy doing in life. And I enjoy buying companies.

It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.

Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.

I always had this desire to be an entrepreneur, except I felt I didn't really know what I was doing.

I think I became an entrepreneur because I have my way of doing business... to do that, you have to have your own company. But if you have your own company, you're an outsider in the Japanese business world. It's difficult. But that's life.

Women are not going to start businesses because we tell them we don't have enough people of a certain group. People want to start businesses because it's a way of fulfilling their ambitions and dreams.

I just came from school one day and told my mom I want to start my finance company.

If you want to make your own decisions about where you work, what you do, what you earn and what you buy, then being able to make money is an important factor.

So many black kids aspire to be entertainers or professional athletes because those are the only role models they see that look like them. There are only 300 jobs in the NBA but an endless amount of opportunities as an entrepreneur. With enough hustle, entrepreneurship opens doors to a world of opportunities.

I'm not ambitious and I don't need to work for The Man.

To build wealth today, you must be in your own business.

The richest people in the world build networks; everyone else is trained to look for work.

I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying we don't have work for black women. But right now I don't know what's next. I hope that there are more opportunities to come my way.

You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.

If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of inspiration.

People who want to make a million borrow a million first

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

Become a millionaire not for the million dollars, but for what it will make of you to achieve it.

We get these questions a lot from the enterprising young. It's a very intelligent question: You look at some old guy who's rich and you ask, 'How can I become like you, except faster?'

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