Norman Spinrad Quotes

If a man has not made a million dollars by the time he is 40, he is not worth much.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money.

Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?

In America, what you've accomplished financially is a measurement, whether you like it or not.

I'm not a tycoon or anything like that. Does my property amount to several million dollars? Of course it does.

Donald Trump, unlikely Mitt Romney, is not awkward about his money. He has absolutely no qualms about saying, 'I'm rich.'

Financially, people always assume you're good when you're a rapper.

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

Money means a lot of respect. It means a lot of accomplishment and a lot of hard work.

That's what I'm tryin' to achieve. I want to be a heavyweight in this game, and I'm tryin' to get the big money. By the same token, the title 'Big Money Heavyweight' applies to everybody in the world. That's what everybody's tryin' to achieve.

I am not interesting in making money. I go to the most expensive restaurant in Boston to have dinner. It is where billionaires come to eat. Even if I become richer, I will still have to go there to eat. After some time, money doesn't make a difference.

I'm not as rich as I could be or should be, but I've done well enough.

When I was a young man, an individual with one million dollars was very rich. Anyone with a few millions more was considered richer than rich.

I like making money, but it's a scorecard. I'm not driven by that.

I got it tatted on me, 'born broke, die rich.'

It's a new year, new year, new money, money!

This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars--an excitingday in a man's life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.

Sometimes you can make a substantial amount of money and automatically think that you've made it, that you did everything you wanted to do. Some people just stop.

My experience indicates that most people who've accumulated a great deal of wealth haven't had that as their goal at all. Wealth is only a by-product, not the original motivation.

I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.

You must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.