Lamman Rucker Quotes

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast.

The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

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.

Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.

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.

A 'no flex zone' is an area where a lot of people can be themselves, live their life, get their money.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

I'm a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I'm doing. I don't want to work for other people forever.

Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying... There is always something you can do... Create something, a play reading... Anything. But don't rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there.

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.

I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.

I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself.

Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.

I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.

The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world.

My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost.

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.

I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard.

Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.

I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV show I'd never have to worry about money and wouldn't have to do anything I didn't want to do.