Billie Holiday Quotes

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth .

You've got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion.

I've always been pretty self-sufficient. I never had to borrow money from my mum, even in the early days.

I always knew that I would have to make it on my own somehow.

I don't need YouTube's money. I have my own money.

Being self-supporting is important to me.

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

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

I'm for economic independence.

I lead my life as normal.

Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

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

I'm blessed with a great memory. To be honest, a lot of times, being on my own at such a young age, my memories were all I had. I didn't have many pictures.

It's not what your parents give you. It's what you do with your own stuff.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

There's a lot of freedom in having nothing. You don't have responsibility. You have nobody to answer to. But I'd rather deal without the poverty.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

I work hard and support myself.

No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.

I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.

I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.

My father felt that children should make their own way.