John Caudwell Quotes

My parents had to work hard, and I was always looking for a way to make it big - for their sakes as well as my own.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

I used to make $300 a week, struggling to put food on the table, but I have become one of the highest-paid fighters in the world. I feel that's destiny.

I was determined not to remain poor.

It is one thing to want money-everyone wants more-but it is something entirely different to be worth more!

I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am.

I've had a very unusual background in science - not the usual route of planning on being a scientist from age 3. I think my story shows that success is more about personal motivation and determination than it is about where you were born or what your economic status was.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.

I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.

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.

I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

There's nothing inherently or patently wrong with anybody who does well, works hard, earns a living, betters themselves. I'm not against any of these things. It's about how you make that money, and then what you do with it.

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.

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.

I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.

The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.

I'm not the type to pat myself on the back and all that, but somebody has to be lucky, right? When I got to Dallas, I was struggling - sleeping on the floor with six guys in a three-bedroom apartment. I used to drive around, look at the big houses, and imagine what it would be like to live there and use that as motivation.

I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.

Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?