Richard DeVos Quotes

If someone can make money from you, you can do more things, and eventually, you can do things you come up with.

Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.

I've been able to become an entrepreneur and an independent artist.

Part of the American dream is 'I can own my own business, I can control my destiny. I can have the opportunity to work for myself.'

I'm a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I'm doing. I don't want to work for other people forever.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.

I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.

But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.

So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.

When I sold my first company at 30, I could have done whatever I wanted to do.

I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.

While still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.

I get to do what I want. And I get paid millions of dollars to do it.

I'm not used to having a boss. I'm the boss. I don't need the money. I'm filthy f... rich!

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

I'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I can do nothing. I'm not a slave to the dollar.

For me, it's about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That's what's big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I'm in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.

Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write.

You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast.