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

There's just no way I could deal with politics.

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

I tell people, 'I'm the only business in the world where I don't pick my merchandise.'

My older brother used to punch me all the time because I was a nerd.

I want to make coin collecting cool again.

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.

It's the weird stuff that makes great television.

Businesses that don't evolve are businesses that die.

If life is tough, at least you got that thing you can pawn.

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.

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

We don't teach kids how to think anymore. We're getting rid of the classics - high school is all about self-esteem.

It costs you just as much to ask a doctor 50 questions as it does to ask him one question. So go see your doctor with questions written down... And if he doesn't want to answer your 50 questions, go find yourself another doctor!

If you make it difficult to do business, there's not going to be any business.

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.

I'm one of those guys who believes in next to zero government. They just screw everything up.

The show impacted our lives immediately. It is crazy. I can't watch the show. I get weirded out.

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.

Most people want a lot more from us than stuff is worth because they think we're extremely wealthy or something.

I'm a really spastic guy. I can't sit still.

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.

Being healthy is part of the happiness of life.

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

If the price is right, I will sell anything.

There's a reason why, when Reagan became president, he started getting rid of regulations, and we had a booming economy.

There's a gazillion different business license fees. And just keeping up with all the regulations - it just doesn't stop.

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.

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

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 only sleep about four or five hours a night. I read all night long.

Most people don't realize how regulated the pawn industry is, especially where I'm at in Nevada.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

People come from all over the world to be on the show, and it still works because of all the interesting items coming in.

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.'

I can't work 12 hours a day, every day for too long before it burns out.

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.

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.

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

The people who pawn stuff never want to be on the show. And the reason behind that, I find out, is when people are pawning something, it's - they're getting a loan. They have to admit they're broke. For some reason or the other, something has happened, or they're financially irresponsible.