Damon Dash Quotes

My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I don't have to do anything I don't want to.

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

The fact that I am able to live a life and act and to do all of those things and support myself and my family is a gift.

The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.

It doesn't matter how much money you make; it's where you feel happy.

Exactly what I'm doing is what success looks like. I get to create on my own terms, on my own timeline, and I'm able to support myself and my mom and my cat comfortably.

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

Money isn't automatically freedom. You need to look carefully at what you're doing to earn the money before you can conclude that you are, in practice, free. This is a cost-benefit analysis we should all perform on our own lives.

The only plan I have is to not do anything I don't want to do - and to never work just for money.

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.

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.

The American dream has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn't provided, or if it doesn't happen, then people feel cheated.

I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer?

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

I don't need YouTube's money. I have my own money.

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

I'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I can do nothing. I'm not a slave to the dollar.

I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.

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.

To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff that I believe in, I can say no a lot and spend time writing - that is a gift.

I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.

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 need to publish to make a living.