California Quote by Krista Allen

I was in Las Vegas, playing on the fruit machines. I was only 20 at the time and I won the jackpot of $72,000,…

— Adrian Lewis

I think I made $55 a week, and it was bliss... I was doing theater. It was all I ever wanted to do. It…

— Jeffrey Tambor

I had no money. I just figured out hustles to get by, like maybe selling my clothes. I wanted to travel around and be…

— Leo Fitzpatrick

I went broke after sophomore year, gambled away all my money, sold some guns, turned $750 into $10,000, flew to Vegas, turned ten thou into $187,000.

— Dan Bilzerian

I left Columbia in the mid-'60s. I had a guaranteed contract for, like, $100,000 a year. And I just let it go. And I…

— Dion DiMucci

I was on a cruise with my grandma when I was a kid. I remember winning $10 on the slot machine.

— Chad Gilbert

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family... Sleeping in my…

— DJ Khaled

I came to New York with $500. That was a lot of money because my allowance was 50 cents.

— Ann Reinking

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

That's wonderful. And what did you do with the money?

— Miriam Hopkins

I remember having to quit school and quit my job. I just sort of moved all my stuff into other people's places. Within, like,…

— Conor Oberst

I got to carve through the streets of New York's financial district and discover the awesome feeling of being part of a system where,…

— Lewis Schiff