Martin Shkreli Quotes

After I met my partner, Mr. Protherow, we decided to start a banking project, and at the same time we started to think already about a business on a bigger scale. At the very beginning we thought more about gaining money, to have a normal life with our families, etc.

I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance acting classes.

I come from a really poor family, and when I started doing campaigns, it changed everything for my family. I am not complaining; I had a beautiful childhood - we didn't have a lot of money, but there was always food on the table, and my parents saved money so that in the holidays we would all get in the car and drive to the mountains.

After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away.

Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.

You can't do business without money, of course, because that's how it works, but I'm not in business only for money.

I need to take care of my mom and making sure she's financially OK. She's done so much for me, it's the least thing I can do.

I never had money; I like nice things, but I don't let that run my life. At the same time, I have to let something drive me... so now I let the money drive me.

A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.

One day we are a hero, another day we are a zero. Without me, Cardiff would have gone bust. Because of my investment, we got promoted.

People with financial plans are much more likely to feel prepared, even in tumultuous times. They're more likely to feel that their dreams and goals are secure. And, oh yes, they do actually save significantly more.

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

If you aren't willing to use your own money [for campaigning], you ought to think about something else.

Say no to politicians who sacrifice the interests of individual investors to corporate interests.

… there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments; there must be an end to speculation with other people's money

We need investors who plant and grow, not reap and run.

As long as the rent's getting paid, you don't think about getting out of the game.

I wouldn't ask other people to invest in my race if I wasn't willing to invest in it myself.

I can't see myself ever spending hundreds of thousands on anything that doesn't come with a toilet.

Even though I made $800 million, I am still grounded.

I justified working so hard by knowing that I was helping to maintain the roof over our heads.

Anytime you take someone's money, that puts enormous pressure. But I think if you want the most reward, you have to take the most risk.

Send me the money and let the younger guys have the fame.

All the sacrifices my mom and family had made had been worth it.