Matthew Sweet Quotes

If someone can make money from you, you can do more things, and eventually, you can do things you come up with.

I'm a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I'm doing. I don't want to work for other people forever.

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

Jay and I used to talk about this: we never had a goal of making a lot of money. We had a goal of having a business of our own. And there were many times we could have sold out and had a lot of money. Billions. We just put it in our pocket and go home, OK? But that was never our goal.

I've been able to become an entrepreneur and an independent artist.

I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.

The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world.

I mean, the way I see it is, every penny I've ever made through music is free money.

Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.

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

My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.

I'm Southern, but I need to be out making my own money, and impacting the world outside of my house.

You'll never get rich by working for your boss.

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.

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

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

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Even though I wasn't sure I could make it as an indie, almost immediately I felt as if a weight had been lifted off me. To be as independent as I am and to be able to support myself is incredibly satisfying. Everything I want to do myself, I can.

A 'no flex zone' is an area where a lot of people can be themselves, live their life, get their money.

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

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.

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

Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?

For me, it's about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That's what's big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I'm in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.