Carine Roitfeld Quotes

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

I am a babe for a living.

The excitement of being a Task Rabbit is that you can create your own businesses and become an entrepreneur. We're creating jobs for people in this economy. Some of the Task Rabbits are cashing out at $5,000 per month.

There was a revolution going on at home. Why didn't I earn some money? Why didn't I do something practical, like chicken farming?

I'm proud I've been able to pay my rent doing what I love because I hate real jobs.

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.

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.

Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.

Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.

I'm fortunate in having journalism as a sideline to pay the bills, and I essentially do it in order to take as long as I want with books.

I need to make money, but I don't want to be another guy selling his McDonald's to the pop market.

Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.

I'm working full time on my job and part time on my fortune

My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework.

The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy.

Only when you are self-employed do you fully realize how much more efficient you become when your output directly correlates with how much money you make.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.

I've been crazy lucky that I've never had a day job. I get really close to having no money, then I always wind up getting some kind of great job.

I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.

I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me.

If companies are able to have multiple revenue streams and have their hands in multiple pools of money, then why shouldn't the people who actually work for those brands be able to do the exact same thing?

Don't sweat it if you are stuck in the corporate job right now. But begin to plan ahead. I know from much personal experience that it takes 1-3 years to transition from total scratch to making a living from home in any career you want.

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.