Roger Ebert Quotes

I'm a wealth creator. I'm not interested in saving in the least. While I do spend a lot, I don't spend money like other billionaires. I'm probably quite unusual, albeit I do have some of the significant trappings. But I always try to make my assets work for a living.

If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.

When you are young and impecunious, society conditions you to exchange time for money, and this is quite as it should be. Very few people are hurt by having to work for a living. But as you become more affluent, it somehow is very, very difficult to reverse that process and begin trading money for time.

We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.

Let's face it, we're not about to earn our way to wealth. That's a mistake millions of Americans make. We think that if we work harder, smarter, longer, we'll achieve our financial dreams, but our paycheck alone-no matter how big-isn't the answer.

At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.

The government in Russia does not tell me what to do with my assets.

I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man.

Millionaires are risk-takers, and they don't become millionaires until they're 40 or 50. It's a slower process than a lot of people think.

No, I'm not wealthy.

Earning money is not a sin, and the bottom line is growth.

I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?

Go where the money is... and go there often.

For most people, their wealth accrues slowly, and at any given point they say, 'Okay, I should kick up my standard of living because now I've earned slightly more wealth.' I went from the dorm room to having a billion dollars.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

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.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

Where wealth is concerned, individuals aren't stuck in little boxes. You don't start out wealthy, stay wealthy, and end wealthy.

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'

Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.

When I retire I'm gonna bet on Wolves drawing every game. I'll be a multi-millionaire!

Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.