Jason Kilar Quotes

I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.

Anything I ever wanted, I had to work really hard for. I learned the value of saving my money, trying to make something happen, and being entrepreneurial, even as a really young girl.

My mom and dad both worked when I was little... My mom, her mom died when she was 11, so she had a rough childhood as well. She put herself through college in three years at the University of Texas - while working a job to pay for it.

I'm shrewd about money; I invest well and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.

I'm a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.

The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

My mother worked at the telephone company during the day and sold Tupperware at night. Evenings, she took classes when she could at University of Maryland's University College, bringing me along to do homework while she studied to get the degree she hoped would offer her and me greater opportunities.

I was never specifically associated with a part, I didn't have tons of money, I wasn't conventionally tall or handsome, so you know the things that were available to me were hard work and perseverance.

My parents had job jars because my father would say, 'Kids today have too much time, too much money and no responsibility. You're going to have no time, no money and a lot of responsibility.'

The more harder you work, the less you're out spending your money.

People say 'I want to be rich'. The question is, 'Are you willing to do what it takes?'

Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which money can be laid out than in the education of children.

My father worked with a first-grade education in this country and managed every single day without a hiccup.

I put myself through college.

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.

Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.

I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.