Bono Quotes

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I've learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, 'cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

It's been a blessing that I can provide for my family just by doing music. I never thought this would ever be my occupation.

Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.

I don't live to work; I work to live.

I come from a really poor family, and when I started doing campaigns, it changed everything for my family. I am not complaining; I had a beautiful childhood - we didn't have a lot of money, but there was always food on the table, and my parents saved money so that in the holidays we would all get in the car and drive to the mountains.

If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.

My goal is to be able to provide for myself and not have to worry about the daily expenses. I do want to be able to benefit from my work and make a good living, but I love it so much that I would do it for free.

There will always be ways to pay my rent, whether I wind up having to be a waitress on the side or whatever it is, but I think it's so important for me to do things that I'm passionate about.

The best piece of advice I ever got from anyone was when Spike Jonze said, 'Take money out of the equation.' And that's actually when Vice started making lots of money. That's when I stopped worrying about money and started worrying about what I wanted to do.

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.

My life goal is to find a nice balance between working for money and working for fulfillment.

Hey, I'm not rich, but I'm lucky. I get to do what I want to do. That's not an easy thing to do in this country.

I did have an expensive divorce, but I'm now better off than I was. So I don't need to work, I just love it.

I have a teaching job that allows me to pay the rent and affords me to, frankly, write the books I want to write.

I know I make a lot of money, but for me - I came from nothing, so it's always been about the love of the game.

I always said as long as I had enough money to feed myself and have a place to eat then I'd be doing music.

I didn't choose this career for money. When I started training, I did it because I liked it, and I never had money for anything in my life.

I got a lot of great years on WWE TV and I made a lot of money throughout the business. So, if I don't do anything else, I'm good. I can kind of do what I want to, which is a very nice feeling to have.

I never expected it, but I've gotten paid a lot to do what I love. There are no complaints.

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

No matter how much money I made from writing, I'd keep the bookstore job.

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

I never wanted to rely on my family for money.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.