Carol Roth Quotes

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships.

Successful shows will always generate great business deals in the future.

Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money.

There's very little substitute in the business world for making money.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

Do deals with the people you want to work with, and the success will follow.

Let it be understood that I am interested in making multimillion-dollar business deals.

Moments are the elements of profit

Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones.

In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

I'm always investing. I'm constantly in talks with someone about some opportunity.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

I have made really some significant deals because I play golf.

I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business.

I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.

It's almost a cliche that great Silicon Valley entrepreneurs don't go sit on a beach when they make a lot of money; they get back to work building another company or at least investing in other people's companies.

In real estate, you make 10% of your money because you're a genius and 90% because you catch a great wave.

I put $5 million into the real-estate business when the world was coming to an end, and three years later, by 1980, I woke up and was worth a hundred. That's a lot of money back then.

There's always more money to be made.

I hope to continue acquiring companies, not so much for the accumulation of wealth but because it's what I do well, and you always like to do what you do well.

Networking is an essential part of building wealth.

We're in the service business by nature, but when we can transition that into ownership things, we love it. Our clients love it, too. We get deluged with offers to get involved with this or that. Silver Lake helps us funnel those opportunities.

lt is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.