George Gilder Quotes

We should be encouraging people to earn a lot of money. I do not know one wealthy person who does not spend money - and most of them employ other people.

It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.

Become one of those people who work hard, invest and build, and at the same time create employment and opportunities for others.

I have no complex about wealth. I have worked very hard for my money; producing things people need.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

There are lots of things about millionaires that make them pretty ordinary, but what's not ordinary is their ability to accumulate wealth, how hard they work, and what they do for a living.

I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.

Here's the secret you should remember whenever you hear someone lamenting how tough it is to get ahead in the postindustrial global economy: Few people work nearly as hard as they could.

When you look at billionaires, many of them share one characteristic: They were not born billionaires.

You can't just wish to be a millionaire; you have to figure out how to earn it.

I built a net worth of more than $10 billion. I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I'm very proud of the job I did.

Your financial success is directly related to the size of the problem you solve for other people (solve BIG problems and you'll make BIG money).

Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.

Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.

The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.

There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself - spend less time drinking, or smoking and socializing and more time working.

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

Those who create wealth should be shown the greatest respect.

I wish it grew on trees, but it takes hard work to make money.

There are people who want to become rich; they become rich. If you persist you can fulfill any kind of stupidity

Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.

Build wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail.