Words matter. These are the best Rick Harrison Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Being healthy is part of the happiness of life.
People come from all over the world to be on the show, and it still works because of all the interesting items coming in.
If the economy is bad, I might be bringing a lot of things in, but it’s difficult to sell, and the opposite when the economy is good.
I want to make coin collecting cool again.
I discovered at age 13 that if a spoon had ‘Sterling’ on the back, it was worth money. I’d run around a swap meet and find 20 in a day, make 75 to 100 bucks by finding silver spoons.
For years, I pitched a reality show because I thought it would be good for business.
Trust me: I know a good investment when I see one.
Five or 10 years from now, people are going to be sitting around going, ‘Wasn’t there a show about four fat guys in a pawn shop?’ And I am sitting on this really nice piece of property on Las Vegas Boulevard. Why not?
I realized that I needed to start taking better care of myself.
You have to have what your customers need because if you don’t have what your customers need, you’re not going to have customers.
In my store, I don’t do anything political. There are no signs up, and I’m not pushing anyone.
Making money is my third or fourth most favorite thing in the world.
I meet celebrities all the time, but I have no idea who they are because I don’t watch television.
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 everyone that works for me not to look down on people. If you’re nice to people and take a minute to talk with them, it’s good for business whether or not they buy anything. Just because they don’t look like they have money doesn’t mean they’re poor.
‘Game of Thrones’ really is an amazing series. Political intrigue, and then they throw in a little magic. I mean, it’s got a dragon in it.
Las Vegas is a crazy, crazy town at times, so there’s a lot of high-end things I get.
The weird thing about the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop is that people come on vacation, and they bring stuff here to sell. They come here to see what we’ll give them for it. Mostly, it’s people from out of town.
Most people don’t realize how regulated the pawn industry is, especially where I’m at in Nevada.
I can’t work 12 hours a day, every day for too long before it burns out.
Most people don’t realize the amount of tax forms the small business guy has to go through.
Eventually, we have to make a good business environment in this country.
There’s just no way I could deal with politics.
Never fall in love with something when you’re negotiating a price. Never decide you’re going to buy something because you can’t live without it. Negotiating to buy an item shouldn’t be an emotional process.
It’s like a golden rule in the pawn business: never cash a government check.
I asked for a horse for Christmas, and I got one! It’s an adult horse. I didn’t want a 5-year-old, which is a teenager for horses. It has a beautiful gait. It’s the Cadillac of horses.
Socialism doesn’t work. A big government doesn’t work.
If life is tough, at least you got that thing you can pawn.
That’s the beautiful thing about my show… It’s truly different every week. We get to pick and choose. Every morning, the girl from production comes to me with 100 different items, and I go, ‘Fake, fake, fake, fake… that’s cool.’
You can have a soda every once in awhile, but don’t drink a gallon of it a day.
Businesses that don’t evolve are businesses that die.
I believe that capitalism is the one thing in this world that’s brought people out of poverty.
Most people want a lot more from us than stuff is worth because they think we’re extremely wealthy or something.
I can make a bourbon and Coke, those types of drinks… If the ingredients are named in the drink, I can make it.
If you go to most pawn shops in Las Vegas, they will tell you exactly what they will pay for, say, an iPod. But if you show up with an 1833 ormolu clock, it won’t pop up in their computer. They are going to tell you to go to Gold & Silver Pawn, because we buy weird things.
I was a really sick kid. I developed epilepsy when I was eight years old, and I would have violent seizures, and I would – literally, I couldn’t get out of bed.
We talk nonstop about what needs to be changed, and everyone has excuses for why the changes can’t happen. I believe we must change our educational system first to get the changes moving forward. I’m happy to be a voice and get in front of an audience who can help by making education a priority.
My wife got all freaked out when we started doing the reality show because she said she saw all these reality shows, and everyone was getting divorced.
The number one thing in this world that has brought people out of poverty is the ease of doing business. And it’s getting harder and harder and harder. I mean, you basically have the Democrats out there saying I should pay more and more taxes on the profits I make.
We don’t teach kids how to think anymore. We’re getting rid of the classics – high school is all about self-esteem.
I am just a normal guy, and suddenly I am really, really famous. It’s definitely got its perks; I never have to wait in line at a restaurant.
I got the Pawnbroker of the Year award. They said I did more for the pawn business in one year than their media team, in 30 years, has been able to do.
There’s a gazillion different business license fees. And just keeping up with all the regulations – it just doesn’t stop.
I read science books, chemistry books, history books. I read that stuff for fun.