"You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion."
— L. Ron Hubbard

January 1, 1970

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This statement is similar or identical to several statements Hubbard is reported to have made to various individuals or groups in the 1940s. Variants include: — The incident is stamped indelibly in my mind because of one statement that Ron Hubbard made. What led him to say what he did I can't recall — but in so many words Hubbard said: "I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is!" — L. Ron Hubbard to Lloyd A. Eshbach, in 1949; as quoted by Eshbach in his autobiography Over My Should