1960s Quote by Henry Kravis

I was guaranteed a hundred thousand dollars a year for five years, which was big money in the early 60's. You think, acquiring that…

— Dion DiMucci

I put $5 million into the real-estate business when the world was coming to an end, and three years later, by 1980, I woke…

— John Catsimatidis

I don't think anybody ever started a great business because they wanted to make a little more cash. They had a dream. They wanted…

— Robert Herjavec

I remember coming out of college thinking, 'OK, I'm gonna get an agent, and I'm gonna make money. I'm gonna make millions of dollars.'…

— Hilary Knight

Harvard and Yale concentrated with venture capitalists that got the best calls and brainpower. Very few firms made most of the money, and they…

— Charlie Munger

I actually almost made a million dollars while in high school.

— Nathan Blecharczyk

The late 90s almost forced me to identify myself as a value investor, because I thought what everybody else was doing was insane.

— Michael Burry

The faster we grew, the more stores we had open, the more money we made. Employees move quickly up the ranks of a company…

— Wayne Huizenga

I studied economics and thought I wanted to play with the stock market - my dad was a financial adviser - and I was…

— Jimmy O. Yang

I've always wanted to invest. That's why I started working on Wall Street in the first place, back in 1986 when I went through…

— Mary Meeker

I made a ton of money in my career.

— Jermaine O'Neal

At Cornell University, it was well known that after five years on Wall Street, you could expect to be making half a million a…

— Philipp Meyer