Swae Lee Quotes

I'm a bombshell, so I'm going to do me. If I want to go platinum, I'm going platinum.

I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.

I'm Southern, but I need to be out making my own money, and impacting the world outside of my house.

I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it.

The first time I made any money, I was 27. I went to Bergdorf's looking like a proper guttersnipe and bought a pair of Louboutins. I'd wear them and an old ink-stained kimono and make my drawings and feel indomitable.

But a sense of - in old-fashioned speak - 'I am OK, I do deserve to be here, I can do what I want to do, I can be myself, I can express myself' is really important as you go into the working world.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

My teammates and my coaches have all allowed me to step into my individuality and not be defined by just being a gymnast.

For me, I analyze the modern girl, the girl that I'm friends with, and they're empowered: They pay their own bills. They have their own style. They wear clothes - the clothes don't wear them.

If I want to wear a dress, I'll wear a dress.

The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.

Money equals freedom.

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.

It's really not about the money. It's just about educating yourself.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.

When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.

I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.

I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it was really for her strength and courage more than her style, even though she had a lot of style. In a weird way, looking at pictures of me when I was 17 or 18, I was dressing the same way. I haven't changed very much.

In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.

I needed to be myself and find my own identity.

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

The big things I've had are things I bought myself.