A biography for Rick Harrisonhasn’t been written yet.
“I have people coming to me with endorsements all the time. I've turned down endorsements well over $1 million because I didn't like the company.”
“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'm a really spastic guy. I can't sit still.”
“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.”
“Businesses that don't evolve are businesses that die.”
“I compete with the 'Welcome To Las Vegas' sign for the number one non-gaming tourist attraction in Las Vegas. I get more visitors than the Hoover Dam.”
“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.”
“The show impacted our lives immediately. It is crazy. I can't watch the show. I get weirded out.”
“If you make it difficult to do business, there's not going to be any business.”
“My father was an amazing guy. Twenty years in the Navy, great father.”
“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.”
“My older brother used to punch me all the time because I was a nerd.”
“If life is tough, at least you got that thing you can pawn.”
“It's the only pawnshop I know that's got real Picassos hanging on the wall. I have Salvador Dalis on the wall. I have LeRoy Neimans.”
“I had this when I was 17 years old - a 1969 Oldsmobile Delta 88 with no backseat. I paid 150 bucks for it, I think, rode it for a good six months, and put four or five quarts of oil a week in it.”
“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.”
“Pawn shops have been around for thousands of years - they were the number one form of consumer credit up until the 1950s, but we were vilified by Hollywood. We were easy people to vilify.”
“Most of those who pawn things and want to borrow money don't want to be on television. That part of my business you don't see, and I do five or 10 times as much.”
“I've worked with and talked to poor people my entire life, being in the pawn shop business.”
“I read a book every night. I really am that nerd, so when I get to go to the Smithsonian and get to go in the back rooms and play with stuff, things like that, for a guy like me, that's amazing.”