Elliott Erwitt Quotes

I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.

I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual.

When I was a kid, and it was time to go to college, I thought, 'College is for people who don't have the street smarts to make it on their own - get in a band, get in a van, and get rockin'.

If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs - my first was at 15, at Burger King. We had to come up with ways to create an income.

From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.

I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.

I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.

I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.

My father certainly believed that one could make a living outside of an office, as he did. And that if I didn't want to work for other people, there wasn't any reason why I had to. He conveyed that very strongly to my sister and I - that smart people can make their own livings.

I am a babe for a living.

Being independent isn't as flashy as a lot of people may think. It's a lot of hard work; its a lot of investing your own money. And to creatively time to make your day work - it's on you to make it work, and no one else.

My dad came from quite a poor background, so we were made to understand the value of money from an early age, and because of that, I always wanted to be self-sufficient and earn my own money.

I was keen to earn my own money from an early age. I had a job as a paper girl in my local village when I was about 11 - and when I was a bit older, around 15, I was a waitress.

I always found creative ways to make money since I was pretty young kid.

If you want to make your own decisions about where you work, what you do, what you earn and what you buy, then being able to make money is an important factor.

I'm taking charge of my own business because I don't trust anyone else to do it.

From the age of 11, I was taught the importance of earning my own money. I would babysit, walk dogs, clean cars, and work at the local corner shop and the butcher's. If I wanted to buy something, I always bought it myself.

I had been an independent entrepreneur from the beginning, and I felt I could do it myself. I didn't want to get a job.

Business owners are responsible for themselves.

Stop hoping for a promotion that's not coming. Instead, start a business at which you want to work.

I had a lot of different jobs between fifteen and nineteen. I'd moved out of my house way, way younger than I should have. So I was living out on my own with my brother when I'd just turned sixteen. I did busboy stuff, and worked in warehouses, and did odd jobs, and stuff. I earned me some Pesos.

I am proud to be able to claim that, from the age of nineteen, I've managed to earna living entirely as a composer.

If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs - my first was at 15, at Burger King.

I started working at age thirteen. I'm a product of public schools, I'm a product of a public university. I started my first company when I was 21. I've subsequently never worked for anybody else. I started that first business when I was still in college.