Joan Rivers Quotes

The wealthy are confident in their abilities to overcome bad situations - on the job, in their personal lives, with their finances. Many have triumphed over dismal financial starts. And, unlike most of the population that hops from job to job, career to career, the wealthy are much more likely to stick with what they start.

Life started getting good when I started making money.

I lived job-to-job before 'Magic Mike.' It certainly has meant a lot to me from a financial standpoint.

I believe that God's dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don't mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you're planted. But I don't have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

I was making so much money I didn't care. I didn't know what to do with the money.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.

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.

My business doesn't keep me warm at night.

I obviously enjoy being wealthy. It's enabled me to have a career that I've chosen and not one that I've been forced into.

I didn't care about being the 'star.' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.

Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.

Education is the first step on the ladder to economic empowerment.

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

For me, being successful meant not having to do my laundry at a laundromat and not having a second job.

For me, I'm not in an industry where I'm starving.

Every home that I have is paid for, every car that I have is paid for, and I am a hundred-million-dollar man. I mean, this is the truth; it's not a lie.

I'm one of the few lucky actors in the world. I've never waited tables. I never pumped gas. I've always earned a living. I never had to borrow from my parents. I was the first in our family to own a new car.

If employed by employee stock ownership plan companies, working Americans can spend less time worrying about job security and retirement savings and enjoy a clearer path to prosperity.

As long as you have a job, I'm providing for my family, I'm blessed and you move forward.

Of course making money and being able to live life the way one desires is important.

I'm grateful to be successful, and I'm grateful that we can make a living, and I hope we can maintain our integrity forever. That's really my only dream. The notion of bigness or smallness, I feel like that comes and goes in such waves that are kind of out of my control.