Taraji P. Henson Quotes

I'm a hard worker, and everything with me is, if I work hard, I should get paid for it. Everything with me, I try to symbolize something flashy like jewelry or a car. The rubbing hands is a symbol of hustling, so it goes back to the money.

I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am.

I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.

I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.

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.

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

I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.

In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth.

When you make a lot of money, it just means you made a lot of money. It doesn't make you a better person.

Every time I go out there and compete, my number is, of course, $100 million or better.

I didn't come into the music business to make money. I came into it to be a success. Of course, if you're successful, you'll earn money and I was happy to receive it.

I'm grateful to be successful, and I'm grateful that we can make a living, and I hope we can maintain our integrity forever. That's really my only dream. The notion of bigness or smallness, I feel like that comes and goes in such waves that are kind of out of my control.

I would rather just be successful and have money than be famous.

My goal as a young man, to be fat, famous and financially fixed by 50.

I was determined not to remain poor.

When you get a little older, you think, I'd like to make a little money and stick it away or buy a place - or win the world championship.

Don't become a philosopher before you become rich.

The goal of truly rich people is to have massive wealth and abundance.

It's nice to have a boyfriend, but it's even nicer to own your house when you're 21.

Wealth is not wisdom's goal, but is often wisdom's reward.

If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.

Money has yet to make anyone rich.

It is one thing to want money-everyone wants more-but it is something entirely different to be worth more!

Good workmen are seldom rich.

Wait 'till I get my money right.