Richard Simmons Quotes

As far as businesses, I was always hustling. I had to pay for my own school. I got 20 bucks every week or 2 from my dad and that was it. So I had a "whatever it took" attitude.

I was selling stuff probably since I could remember, like 6 or 7 years old. I was always out there helping my mom and dad sell watches, glasses, CDs, DVDs, stuff like that. Whatever we could put our hands on. I did it until I was around 17. But I was just doing it because I had to. There was no other option.

America has always fascinated me; it's a country where you can make it from one side to the other with no money, by hook or by crook.

I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.

When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big city with nothing and make it.

I started hustling in early adolescence.

When I was very young, I had to start to working to help my family, while my friends were studying. Since then, I have felt the urgency to escape from every dependency situation.

I used to sell candy and ice creams in the street, and I worked in the fields to help my parents.

I don't want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life.

My siblings and I had to earn our own pocket money so from the age of about 10 I had a job. I did a paper round, helped with the farmer's delivery at the weekend, cut hedges for neighbours and worked on a market stall. Then I'd go and buy a record with my hard-won money.

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it!

Just growing up in Harlem, it didn't matter what you had to do to get fresh - you would do it.

I grew up working hard to earn everything I had.

The business of being told to earn a dollar, that no one is going to give you anything - that was kind of my mantra throughout my childhood, and now it's in my adult life. I find that people really tend to relate to the immigrant father, whether he be Italian, Greek, Spanish or whatever.

I think what I came from and what I saw molded me into a certain person. Nothing was ever wrapped or a silver spoon, so I don't think I would know how to live and I don't think I'd want to live if it wasn't a grind.

My mum had me when she was just 18 and she worked three jobs, including bar tending, to put food on the table and she also went to night college. She worked really hard for us and I kept myself busy with football.

For any child growing up, anything is possible. We were poor growing up and you had to work hard and make it happen for yourself.

I think, as a founder and entrepreneur, you just keep hustling through it.

My dad, grew up poor in a copper-mining town in Arizona. The eleventh of 15 children, he learned to be resourceful and entrepreneurial at a young age, shining shoes at local bars and starting his own pinata business at the tender age of twelve.

I grew up with nothing, and that was my motivation.

Since I was 18 I was in the record industry doing my own thing, and I had to be that strong person.

Not a lot of people know this story but I actually got into the business without even telling anyone in my family. It was something I did on my own and I had been training for six to eight months before I told my dad and my step-dad.