A biography for Rick Harrisonhasn’t been written yet.
“I realized that I needed to start taking better care of myself.”
“Most people want a lot more from us than stuff is worth because they think we're extremely wealthy or something.”
“I only sleep about four or five hours a night. I read all night long.”
“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.”
“There's a million things wrong with government that need to get fixed, but none of its ever going to get fixed unless we start educating our children better.”
“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.'”
“Trust me: I know a good investment when I see one.”
“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.”
“In the '90s, I went on eBay to buy some paddle tires for my four-wheeler ATV and couldn't find any. When I did find a manufacturer that sold them, I bought 20,000 and had no problem reselling them. So the next time you get mad when you can't find an item, realize there's a market waiting to be explored.”
“It's the weird stuff that makes great television.”
“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.”
“People come from all over the world to be on the show, and it still works because of all the interesting items coming in.”
“It amazes me. I'm just a fat, middle-aged, bald guy, but people still want to meet me.”
“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 tell people, 'I'm the only business in the world where I don't pick my merchandise.'”
“You can have a soda every once in awhile, but don't drink a gallon of it a day.”
“In my store, I don't do anything political. There are no signs up, and I'm not pushing anyone.”
“When you're the boss, you have no one else to turn to.”
“My dad had always bought and sold gold and other stuff. In '81, he went broke because of real estate, so he moved us to Vegas and opened a small second-hand store. We always wanted a pawn license because there's a lot more money in that.”
“Socialism doesn't work. A big government doesn't work.”