Chicago Tribune Quotes

I'm making better than two million a year, but it's hard work. The luxuries and pleasures I enjoy in my spare time keep me in condition to do that work. Carnegie and Frick have more money than I have, but I'm getting more value for my dollars than they are.

I never thought of myself as a wealthy person. I've thought of myself as a person who has had a lot of luck. I don't have the same stress that other people have, but there are too many things I could have done differently if wealth was what I was after. If I was all about money, I would have lived in L.A.

Percentages are why I am rich.

When I was 12 I worked with someone - it was actually an English teacher at my school, John Woodward. He was the only teacher in the school to have a top-of-the-range Porsche and all the trappings of success, so it was very interesting for me to find out how he did it. He was probably the wealthiest English teacher in the community.

Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.

Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

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

He that is rich is wise.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

I was making so much money I didn't care. I didn't know what to do with the money.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.

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

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.

I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

I make an eight-figure income annually.

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

I hope that I'll be hot for a long time so I can make a lot of money, I can retire early, and just travel. Hopefully that will happen.

I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.

I made 22 million in 14 years... with taxes, and travel and everything else, it gets blown out the window... which is why I still need to work.

I obviously enjoy being wealthy. It's enabled me to have a career that I've chosen and not one that I've been forced into.

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.