I trust to luck. I am planning to be a millionaire before I die but I don't have a plan as to how that will happen.

- Neil Oliver

I find it so easy to read qualified commentators who are 180 degrees opposed to each other.

- Neil Oliver

It is security that I crave and money provides security. What is that old line about money? "Some is good, more is better and too much is just right."

- Neil Oliver

After I graduated from the University of Glasgow, I was a self-employed archaeologist going from dig to dig around Scotland, and it was not well-paid…

- Neil Oliver

It took me a while to get established - success didn't happen overnight.

- Neil Oliver

People looking at what I do from the outside would think it was a secure world I live in, but it isn't. Just because you had a series last year, does…

- Neil Oliver

I'm wary of the new contactless ways of paying. The idea of paying with your phone is a little worrying: I have lost more than one over the years.

- Neil Oliver

Television came looking for me; it was never a plan to become a presenter.

- Neil Oliver

I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.

- Neil Oliver