Aeriel Miranda Quotes

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

There is always greed. There is nothing wrong with greed.

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.

An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.

The point of vision and desire are the same.

When I see people scratching and clawing towards ambition and greed, I wonder why they are doing it and for what.

When someone wants something, they must know why they are fighting. This is the only reason to seek a reward.

If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.

The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.

Money doesn't drive me.

Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.

A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.

I have a lot of ambition.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.