Rick Harrison

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

“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.”

“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.”

“It's like a golden rule in the pawn business: never cash a government check.”

“I meet celebrities all the time, but I have no idea who they are because I don't watch television.”

“I'm a Trump guy.”

“If I brought another car home, there would be problems. I have a lot of cars as it is. I'm a car addict.”

“The more money you make, the more times people sue you.”

“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.”

“I'm not that cool; I'm just a bookworm.”

“I'm a nerdy guy who likes to read a lot.”

“I bought a 1200-year-old Viking bracelet once.”

“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.”

“The part I hate is when we go out to eat. My youngest son, who's 11, doesn't like to eat in more fancy restaurants, so we often go out to places like Red Robin and such. Well, as you can imagine, in that kind of place I probably have to jump up about 10 times during a meal to take a picture with somebody or sign an autograph.”

“Las Vegas is a crazy, crazy town at times, so there's a lot of high-end things I get.”

“When you endorse a Republican, everyone sort of frowns on you. I don't know why, but hey.”

“Eventually, we have to make a good business environment in this country.”

“I want to make coin collecting cool again.”

“What's normal life for the majority people of America, the liberal press thinks is like, 'Oh my gosh.' We don't live in that little, weird, bizarre vacuum of San Francisco.”

“I do realize that television shows end.”