Jamie Johnson Quotes

When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.

The money doesn't really matter. I've been a multi-millionaire for a long time. My sons are rich.

My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living.

Ariana Grande is a billionaire before she's been an artist. You have to work to be able to appreciate what you have... what work did she ever have to do in her life?

I have a slightly bourgeois upbringing, I guess. My parents paid for me to go to school, which is nice, but I haven't gotten a dime since then. I have no trust fund. I wish I did.

I've been very, very fortunate. I never had to work for a living.

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.

My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.

No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.

I am one of 40 grandchildren. What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.

I came from a family of extremely old money, and so by the time I was born, there was really just a trickle of money left.

Regressing back to an infant state is nothing to be proud of. Rich Americans don't drive themselves, don't cook, don't do their own nails/hair/make-up, don't shop, and I suppose all they've got in common with rich British people is that they don't raise their own kids, either.

There was a commonality in a lot of the private school experiences that I had of children whose lives were not their own. They thought they were their own, but they were essentially gifted this life by their parents. So they were spending money; they were going on trips - I guess, in a way, it is their life, but they didn't earn it.

What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother's house. When my mother passed away, I wanted to buy it from the rest of my family and keep the house in the family. That was the only reason I even attempted writing for money.

I'm John the Fourth, so I think there's a lot of things in life that have been truly handed to me by the hard work and the pain of others.

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.

My family and I have been blessed with good fortune in the world of business. We've created quite a net worth. My children, two boys, have more money than they will ever need, and they aren't empire builders.

I was 12 years fittin' to be a billionaire; I was 15 years old as a millionaire. I've been rich since I was 14. My son has been a millionaire since he was 12, so that's just the life. We've been playing with money since young.

Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,' you ask? I don't know... I've had so much, a son as president, two as senators, a son-in-law who's an ambassador... perhaps God doesn't permit that much.

The truth is that my grandfather was quite wealthy, a shipbuilder.

By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.

I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.

I'm glad I was never an heiress.

I don't want to be known as the Hilton heiress, because I didn't do anything for that.