William Faulkner Quotes

Wealth usually comes from doing what other people find insufferably boring.

I actually almost made a million dollars while in high school.

Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

I have made billions of dollars in business making deals. Now I'm going to make America rich again.

I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money.

Those who create wealth should be shown the greatest respect.

The problem with this world is not enough problem solvers. So, if you become a problem solver you become rich.

Obama doesn't know how to invent the iPhone; he can't start a successful business. He's never really worked in a business except for the briefest of times.

I have started many companies now worth more than $100 million. So I know a little about business.

It turns out that Donald Trump has been very good at buying low and selling high, and it helps account for his amazing business success.

For centuries our wealth has come from our ambition, entrepreneurial skills and global reach.

The only thing I did well was learn how to make money.

Madam Walker was a woman who transformed herself in a very American, rags-to-riches way.

I have two people that I mainly look up to: Magic Johnson is one of them. He just blew everything out of the water. He didn't make much money in basketball, but since basketball has been over, he's investing in the community and making a lot of money at the same time. The next one I look up to is Sean Combs, who has always been a hustler.

If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I'd be a rich man right now.

Zuckerberg rejected $2 billion for Facebook and has successfully created a company worth nearly $200 billion.

You might not be the greatest rapper or singer, but the businessman always outlasts the talent.

I have noticed that most of the successful businessmen are not that educated. But they are the ones who hire highly educated employees to work for them.

We have some of the smartest businessmen in India, who have created huge wealth.

I'm happy to see somebody from the urban community that could go out and make a half-a-billion dollars.

We should be encouraging people to earn a lot of money. I do not know one wealthy person who does not spend money - and most of them employ other people.

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.

There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.

Your financial success is directly related to the size of the problem you solve for other people (solve BIG problems and you'll make BIG money).