Jon Lovitz Quotes

I didn't have that when I invented MyPillow. I didn't have a safety net.

I wasn't sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

My dad took on every job he could get. He worked like mad. But then, at some point, he had saved up enough to open his first pub.

When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.

There have been a lot of challenges, but I'm still standing on my own, and it's quite an achievement knowing that I own my own business and created my own success through hard work and vision.

Bill Hewlett and I were brought up in the Depression. We weren't interested in the idea of making any money. Our idea was if you couldn't find a job, you'd make one for yourself.

Keep your shop, and your shop will keep you.

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

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

I work for everything I've got. I started off as a very poor kid. I want to get paid.

My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

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.

It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.

Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.

In order to be creatively satisfied and financially secure, you need to be a self-starter. I'm always assuming nothing's going to work out and I have to roll up my sleeves.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself.

You're only the boss if you put up your own money.

We're so used to financing things on our own that we always have a plan in place to sort of scale our ideas.

I was told I had to go to business school to succeed. I gave it a shot, but eventually dropped out to bootstrap a restaurant with just a Visa card and a $20,000 line of credit. Everyone told me restaurants were hard work (and they were right! I have so much respect for anyone in the restaurant business). I ran the restaurant for two years, sold a franchise, decided to change paths, and sold the whole operation at a modest profit.

The Way I See It: If you're worried about getting a job-or keeping one-start a company of your own. By doing so, you'll reap the rewards of your hard work and you'll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it.

I don't get handed money - and I never will. I have to work!

We need to create an ecosystem which will make young people want to start their own company.

There are too many African-Americans with too much money for us to have to go to anybody else for anything in terms of schools, in terms of scholarships, in terms of entrepreneurship, in terms of moving us along as a group to that place where we should be as a people.