Robin Sloan Quotes

Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.

We want to appeal to everyone and get rich quick. We want to be millionaires. I've got this plan to buy Tasmania you see.

Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.

It's a new year, new year, new money, money!

Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!

It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a friend is kindness or a sense of humor. No, in a friend a good personality trait is a Gulfstream.

Forget the haters, just get ya money, just get ya weight up.

I began to realize that the big money must necessarily be in the big swing.

Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work!

There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.

If someone hands you a million dollars, best you become a millionaire, or you won't get to keep the money.

Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.

Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to play.

No good man ever became suddenly rich.

Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.

It's always a good idea to get yourself a famous, rich, and groovy young man. That's one of the best-known methods of furthering your career.

Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer industry and thinking, Wow, that's amazing. But I never thought I'd be on that list. It's clear I was wrong. I'm on the list, at least temporarily.

I'm big into stocks. I've invested in a lot of stocks. One day I was talking to my accountant, and he was like, "Yo, what if I could turn a million dollars into $20 million?"

The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.

If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

I met so many people after I got rich and famous, and I learned that you can't ultimately trust people unless they were your friends when you were broke.