Financial Milestone Quotes

I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.

My best year I made $25,000. Of course, that was back in the '70s.

When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.

Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.

I don't believe in the 100 crore club.

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.

Korea's early repayment of the full amount of loans from the IMF is a major milestone.

I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

When the first million came in, I felt, 'My God, now I'm really independent.' That was a fantastic experience.

The first billion is a helluva lot harder.

We never had a billionaire brand in music; the closest thing we had was Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson sold 750 million records. I think we're gonna set the tone for other youngsters to make more money and see that a billion dollars can be accomplished.

Our Industry has been bitten by the 100 crore club

The first hundred thousand - that was hard to get, but afterwards, it was easy to make more.

It is easy to cross 100 Crores these days but it takes a lot of efforts to creep towards the next number that is 200.

When we talk about 'Sweetback,' yes, it stars the whole black movement, but it's also the first time an independent film made that kind of money and was that successful and taken seriously.

Now, I made the most money I ever made in my life with 'Papers' - I think my first check was like $101,000, my folks couldn't even believe. At this time, this is like 2010, I'm still in the barbershop cutting hair, still being the regular Zaytoven because I felt like after 'Papers,' it wasn't going to get any bigger than that.

When Bill Morgan and I formed Kinder Morgan in February of 1997, it had about $300 million in enterprise value.

If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.

You're not changing the world at $500 million in revenue. You start making a true difference when you're doing billions in revenue.

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.