I never thought I would downgrade into a 4,000-square-foot house. It took me about two months to find places to put everything.
— Corey Harrison
I'm not a cook at all, but I wanted to have a house with a really nice kitchen.
When the housing market fell in Las Vegas, we got so many Rolex and Tag Heuer watches it was ridiculous.
We had a talk early on and decided we did not want to end up like the Hogans.
I would work at a 7-Eleven even if I was retired just so I could have something to do every day.
I worked with him every day, and he was more than my grandfather. He was my best friend.
I can do with mistakes, but I can't deal with stupidity.
One of the perks is when John Mayer calls you up and tells you, ‘Hey, buddy, I just bought a ranch in Montana. When are you gonna come by? When are we gonna hang out?' It's just not something I ever expected to happen.
I've fired quite a few, but I've never had an employee quit on me.
It's weird to feel better at 31 than 25.
At dinner, I usually go off the chain a little bit and have whatever I want but within reason.
I put urinals in all my houses. They save marriages.
I box 12 rounds a day five days a week.
Hitachi Nail Guns were as good as gold in this city for years. I had 300 on pawn, and then when they stopped building houses in Vegas I wound up with 300 Hitachi Nail Guns that I can't give away.
There are plenty of days when I would love to get in my truck, drive to work, walk behind the pawn counter and just do a regular job.
I like being busy. I couldn't sit around the house all day and do nothing.
You look for the way something is built. You see a Prada bag and you look at the stitching at the back. If it's a fake one, then they make it really cheap. If it's a real Prada bag and I will look at it, I will count every single stitch and make sure they are exact distance apart.
If the deal is not right, just walk away. You don't have to take it, you don't have to keep going, arguing or trying to find a middle ground. If you're not comfortable with it, just go.
It was kind of like, ‘Who's gonna wanna watch a show about four fat dudes in a pawnshop?'
I learn a lot from my dad and my grandpa, but I do things in a completely different way.
I can only have four to five ounces of food in my stomach. When you only have that much space in there, you don't want to fill it up with crap.
I probably have five protein shakes a day.
I used to be 400 pounds.
When I was a teenager I loved snowboarding, but in my 20s I was too big to strap my feet in the boards.
Our typical customer is a local guy who needs the money to get by for the week.
I think the No. 1 universal thing is that everybody's got that silly thing in their closet that they think could be worth money. There's always a chance you could turn on 'Pawn Stars' one day and that'd be on there.
I wake up at 5:30 in the morning, get to the Pawn Shop at six, work out for two hours, film until seven at night.
When I fire, I just look at them and I say, ‘You're fired.' I don't prolong it.
You know, life hasn't changed that much for me. It's just, everything's gotten a little nicer. I drive a nicer car. I live in a nicer house.
I remember when we'd get excited that we had 70 people in the store a day. Now we're, like, ‘We only did 2,000 people?'
It's funny because from the time I was a kid, I knew what I was going to do. What's even funnier is that my dad and my grandfather didn't want me to work at the pawn shop, but I was deadset on it.
I have family that are diabetic and I've seen the hell it's put them through and I've told myself, I'm not going down like that.
I went and got a Lap-Band put in and the weight just started falling off. It was like someone took a backpack full of rocks off of you.
