Mort Walker Quotes

I made my million before I was 19!

People don't understand this, but I started very young, and I became very, very successful at a very young age. By the time I was 26 years old, I was a multimillionaire. And I started with nothing. And I was on the road 10, 11 months a year.

I've made a profit from everything I have done in life.

I made a penny for each paper delivered every day, plus 2 cents for Sunday papers. I had 120 customers. For a 10-year-old kid in the 1940s, that was a lot of money.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

I'm not in this for the money because if I was, I would have jumped out after our first album.

Obviously, artists need to make money and stuff like that, but if you do something good or if you make good art or make good stuff, the wealth will find you in some way.

I always found creative ways to make money since I was pretty young kid.

I like the art of making money more than the money.

I actually almost made a million dollars while in high school.

I'm the cash cow now, man. It's the Cejudo way.

It was tennis that got me started in business. When I was 16 and about to embark on my A-levels, I set up a tennis academy and became one of the youngest qualified tennis coaches in the country. It did well; by the time I was 19 I was able to buy my first house.

Doing modeling was a fun thing for me. At a young age, being able to earn was exciting. I got to work with some very talented designers and models. But there was always a yearning in me to do something more.

I'm acting! And doing it for income! But it's for something that I love, and that's super rare.

I always tell people, when I was growing up I was really into getting money - I didn't really care about anything else.

Donald Trump is living proof of the American Dream. A kid from Queens, New York, who made it big. And, yeah - he'll be the first to tell you he isn't perfect. But who is?

I got to the pinnacle of the sport for a reason and that's to make money. I didn't come here just to give handouts.

I knew exactly what I wanted to do since I could remember. As a kid, if my friends came round after school for dinner, I'd put on shows; I'd write plays and charge the parents £1.50 for a ticket for sweetie money.

The girls and women of our race must not be afraid to take hold of business endeavor and, by patient industry, close economy, determined effort and close application to business, wring success out of a number of business opportunities that lie at their very doors.

When I was still doing indie, it was just purely art. I don't think about how much I will get paid or how much the movie will earn.

I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.

One of the things I have known my entire life is that I have an innate capability for making money.

No matter what happens to our game, money won't be a motivation for me.

You get a lot of money and you realize it's pretty cool.

We bought a sofa with the money I made from 'Thunderbirds,' and I've still got it, and we call it Thunderbird 1. That's literally all I got out of the job.