Merton Miller Quotes

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.

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.

By 25, I was a millionaire.

Prosperity is just around the corner.

Make money, get rich. Enrichissez-vous.

Wayne Messam does not have any financial problems and is a classic American Success Story.

I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.

I remember being really poor until I got my first $250,000 check from Faberge. That was pretty nice; I put it in the bank, and from that moment on, there seemed to be a lot of champagne and limousines in my life.

Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

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

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.

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

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.

I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.

Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write.

I'm not driven by the mighty dollar.

I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire. I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do.

Nothing wrong with making money.

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

Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

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 was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.