John Sununu Quotes

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

I'm for economic independence.

I was always interested in having my own money - not my family's money. I don't think it had anything to do with me being Elvis's granddaughter. None of my drive was, 'I need to get away from my family legacy!'

That's what I do this for, to secure my family's future. I don't care about anything else. I'm able to spoil people, and that's the best thing.

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

When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.

I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

Make as much money as you can. It really does help. I don't know why it's terrible to say, but it's true.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.

Everybody getting a significant exit creates a legacy and creates something that you can pay forward and bootstrap an industry in a substantial way.

No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it.

Those who can create wealth — and know that they can — are able to dictate their own terms.

Make money, get rich. Enrichissez-vous.

All men who would obtain freedom must obtain wealth

I believe in building your foundation - if your foundation is not rich, then you are far from rich.

I sometimes think that the only person fit to inherit wealth is the person who doesn't need an inheritance - the person who would create his own fortune no matter what his start in life - and have come to view inherited wealth as an affliction.

What counts the most for women is having the confidence to make your own money.

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

I want all Latinos to know the American dream is alive. I believe in economic liberty. I believe there's no demographic more suited to achieving the American dream than Latinos.

I've always been the one who struggled financially, so now it's so cool that I can make my own money and do whatever I want with it.

You are not created for poverty.

Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce - to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth.