Ama Ata Aidoo Quotes

I wish it grew on trees, but it takes hard work to make money.

Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.

Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.

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.

It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich.

I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life.

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.

I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

Go where the money is... and go there often.

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.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.

I don't chase money, money chase me!

When someone succeeded in quickly making a lot of money in America, people said he had made his fortune.

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

Let's face it, we're not about to earn our way to wealth. That's a mistake millions of Americans make. We think that if we work harder, smarter, longer, we'll achieve our financial dreams, but our paycheck alone-no matter how big-isn't the answer.

I never cared about money. I'm not destined to be a rich woman. I'm destined to be a woman who makes a lot of money and never has any. I've made millions and millions and millions of dollars and I just spend it.

Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.

Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.

Do you want to be rich or not? Let's get focused on that, buddy

Most people struggle financially because they take advice from sales people, not rich people.

The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good; the fact that the good is a by-product of the selfish pursuit of riches has nothing to do with its indisputable value.

Nothing is more common than energy in money-making, quite independent of any higher object than its accumulation. A man who devotes himself to this pursuit, body and soul, can scarcely fail to become rich. Very little brains will do; spend less than you earn; add guinea to guinea; scrape and save; and the pile of gold will gradually rise.