John Mortimer Quotes

I think that stocks have been this tremendous, tremendous equalizer for people in this country. Guys who can't make a lot of money at their jobs have been able to make a lot of money in the stock market.

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.

I don't think anybody ever makes any money buying and selling stock. They have to make money by keeping the stock.

I'm for economic independence.

I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

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

These will be fabulous investments and will make millions of more people rich.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Like having your own licence to print money.

I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it.

Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins.

There's always more money to be made.

All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

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

You can easily rebuild wealth, but you cannot create liberty when it has gone.

Those who can create wealth — and know that they can — are able to dictate their own terms.

The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail.

All men who would obtain freedom must obtain wealth

Economic freedom is a highly desirable state -- but in bust and boom we must be prepared to face the its consequences.

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

Jay and I used to talk about this: we never had a goal of making a lot of money. We had a goal of having a business of our own. And there were many times we could have sold out and had a lot of money. Billions. We just put it in our pocket and go home, OK? But that was never our goal.

This country is conducive to making money. Once you learn this lesson and make your first deal, you will really appreciate the tools available to you in the United States, the tools that will help you 'boot-strap' yourself into a large income.

The one thing I wanted was independence. And I realised to have that independence, you needed financial independence.