Ingvar Kamprad Quotes

If I have a roof over my head and if I'm cashing checks and choking some necks I'm always happy.

When I started, all I wanted to do was make $3,000 per month. And because it wasn't about the money for me, I know that's why things worked out.

I was the boy next door who always knew what it meant to have no money. That changed when I turned professional. I was crazy.

I've already gotten the big paychecks. I'll be fine.

Nobody knows this, but the first actual purchase, after I signed my deal and called my bank account and heard how much money was in there - 'cause I was so broke and hungry - was Taco Bell.

I got the Hammer money, sweetie you can't touch this.

Money is sensual.

I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

I've been able to help my family financially since making my first hit record. I bought my parents a house. My husband and I have a property in Portugal and one in Mumbles, Wales, and my family are always coming out to visit us. It has been fantastic to have such a successful career and to have been able to help everyone.

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.

The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.

It's human nature when you first make your big fortune to want to show off a bit. I don't begrudge that whatsoever.

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

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

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

My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost.

I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

After being on 'Oprah' for a couple of months, I got my first royalty check for $1,478,392.17. I will never forget it. At the height of my career, I made $3.3 million. Unbelievable. From welfare in the projects to $3.3 million.

I'm not driven by the mighty dollar.

Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.