Quotes from Rick Harrison

There's only so much stuff you can buy. I have to retail the stuff. Stuff that's really really weird - it's cool, but who are you going to sell it to? I do collect some stuff. In the end, I have to run a business.

In my store, I don't do anything political. There are no signs up, and I'm not pushing anyone.

People come from all over the world to be on the show, and it still works because of all the interesting items coming in.

The Obama administration made it illegal for me to loan any money to anyone in the military. I have one compliance guy just for a pawn shop. It's everything from Homeland Security, FBI, the local police department, IRS - all these regulations I have to keep an eye on constantly, and it's just overwhelming for a small business.

Most people don't realize the amount of tax forms the small business guy has to go through.

I read a book every night. I really am that nerd, so when I get to go to the Smithsonian and get to go in the back rooms and play with stuff, things like that, for a guy like me, that's amazing.

It costs you just as much to ask a doctor 50 questions as it does to ask him one question. So go see your doctor with questions written down... And if he doesn't want to answer your 50 questions, go find yourself another doctor!

The part I hate is when we go out to eat. My youngest son, who's 11, doesn't like to eat in more fancy restaurants, so we often go out to places like Red Robin and such. Well, as you can imagine, in that kind of place I probably have to jump up about 10 times during a meal to take a picture with somebody or sign an autograph.

Trust me: I know a good investment when I see one.

Socialism doesn't work. A big government doesn't work.

Once, an unkempt, elderly woman came into the pawn shop. She appeared homeless, and she insisted on seeing every piece of expensive jewelry in the store. Just when I was feeling impatient, the woman pointed at the most expensive piece of jewelry and said, 'I'll take that one.' Then she proceeded to pull $4,000 out of her sock to pay for it.

You can have a soda every once in awhile, but don't drink a gallon of it a day.

You have some cities that are saying that if you have a man who feels like he's a woman, he can use the women's restroom. I guarantee you that will be taken advantage of by some very bad men who want to go into a bathroom where there's young ladies. That will happen if you pass a law like that.

I tell people, 'I'm the only business in the world where I don't pick my merchandise.'

It amazes me. I'm just a fat, middle-aged, bald guy, but people still want to meet me.

Being a middle-class family back in the 1970s meant we only had one TV... and it wasn't in your room... so when I was 8 years old, I began developing a passion for reading history, and it's never stopped.

I'm one of those guys who believes in next to zero government. They just screw everything up.

My father was an amazing guy. Twenty years in the Navy, great father.

I'm a dad with six kids, and I'm trying to teach each of them a little bit of morality.

I can make a bourbon and Coke, those types of drinks... If the ingredients are named in the drink, I can make it.

Everyone likes to learn history. They just don't like to hear it from a professor looking at notes. They like to hear it like it's from their uncle, and that's how I explain history.

I'm a nerdy guy who likes to read a lot.

I meet celebrities all the time, but I have no idea who they are because I don't watch television.

There's a gazillion different business license fees. And just keeping up with all the regulations - it just doesn't stop.