Forrest Griffin Quotes

For my lifestyle, I believe in living 10 times below my means. As a result of that, I have the luxury of working only when I'm inspired.

I never wanted to take a job because I needed money, and I never have.

I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

It was a matter of not living lavishly but enjoying what you had, growing things with your hands, working hard, but not being tied to a nine-to-five job, and generally feeling that there's more to life than money.

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

I never made any money, but I had the best jobs in the world.

I'm not greedy - I have a pretty good life. I don't have an expensive lifestyle, so I can make my living teaching classes at my gym.

For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.

If you live below your means, you can turn down stuff all the time.

So, make a real effort to avoid getting sucked into all the expensive lifestyle habits of typical Americans. Because if you do that, then people with the money will dictate what you do with your life.

I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.

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.

Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

It's not about earning a paycheck, it's about doing something good that you believe in.

Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

If you can figure out how to get paid to do something you love, that's the dream.

I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I have become an environmental campaigner.

I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

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?

Maybe it sounds like I'm splitting hairs here but I don't wanna perform for a living, I wanna live for a living.

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

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