Quotes About Achievement

One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

I worked with everybody, the best, and they actually paid me money to stand next to the people I idolized.

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.

Speaking personally, I want my films to make money, but money is just fuel for the rocket. What I really want to do is to go somewhere. I don't want to just collect more fuel.

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name

Recently somebody said, "Hey, you lost weight," and I said, "Yeah, thirty-five pounds and three and a half billion dollars." So I'm quite a bit lighter and more flexible than I was.

That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?

People got to realize that the owners who been paying me are a lot richer than I am. It's not like I was born rich; I had to play basketball to make this type of money.

It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.

Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.

I want to be successful. Not just money. Just making a successful record and a successful show... I could feel successful without selling a million records.

Not everybody will become a baseball star and not everybody will make the money I'm making.

Where there is a will, there's prosperity around the corner.

I was stealing all the bases, and when you had to go to arbitration they said, 'You know, only the big boys make the money.' So I got to try and figure out how to hit a home run, too.

The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.