Rick Harrison Quotes

Rick Harrison

Profession : Businessman

Birth : March 22, 1965

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.

Rick Harrison

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

Rick Harrison

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.

Rick Harrison

If the price is right, I will sell anything.

Rick Harrison

Governments have a tendency to screw up currencies.

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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.

Rick Harrison

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.

Rick Harrison

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.

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

Rick Harrison

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.

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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.

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I'm just a normal guy and blue-collar historian, and people keep tuning in.

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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.

Rick Harrison

My dad was in the Navy; he was in Vietnam. My mom was trying to sell real estate on the side. We didn't have a lot of money.

Rick Harrison

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

Rick Harrison

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

Rick Harrison

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.

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I was a businessman for a long time before I was a celebrity.

Rick Harrison

When you're the boss, you have no one else to turn to.

Rick Harrison

When you come across something, and its quality is just outrageous, that's probably something of value. It's been that way for hundreds and hundreds of years - the really, really expensive stuff is also really, really high quality.

Rick Harrison