Hank Williams Jr. Quotes

I have never lived off my family name.

I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'.

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.

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.

If I stayed in London, I probably would have gotten more work. I've never wanted to be thought of as an 'It' girl, someone who rides on the coattails of my mother.

I want to be self-made and leave a mark.

Part of the American dream is 'I can own my own business, I can control my destiny. I can have the opportunity to work for myself.'

My dream was to not work for anyone. There's only so many things I was good at - and how am I not going to work for anyone? I just don't want people telling me what to do.

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.

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

I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.

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 don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

The big things I've had are things I bought myself.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.

I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.

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

When you go independent, if you fail, you're totally responsible for it. If you succeed, you're totally responsible for it. You are responsibly for who you are... and what you do and what you make.