Ariel Pink Quotes

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.

Fortunately, now I've got myself in a position where things are about story and not money. In my earlier career, it was more about getting my foot in the door and to get enough money to live, to be perfectly honest.

Take control of who you report to, what you do, what you create. Or start a business on the side. Deliver some value, any value, to anybody, to somebody, and watch that value compound into a career.

At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore.

I graduated with a degree in musical theater and no skill in anything else to make money; I wish I had gotten a massage therapy kit or something where I could have made my own money.

I've been an employee all my life. Would I wish, if I could rewind it, to have gone down a different route? Possibly, but I've had a great time. Anyway I'm not ruling it out; I could still buy a business.

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

The lack of available, good work inspires a lot of people to be self-creating.

I'm really a self-made businesswoman.

For years, I did whatever I could just to pay the bills and gain experience and work with as many different people as I could.

When you're by yourself and not with WWE, you are your own business. And I was very successful in that business because of all the lessons I learned.

I started managing myself in October 2004, and since then, it's gone up and up.

Right now, at the age of 22, I'm making a living off of this and I'm building, not only just my brand, but I'm also building myself bell-to-bell. I'm building myself when that red light's on and I want to keep doing it.

I just kind of went from being a standup, one-man band, to then kind of breezing back and working with other people. And now I'm just trying to be a legitimate guy who pays the rent, you know.

Stay as connected as you can. Sometimes that means you're going to do a job that may not pay you much but may give you a great connection. If the work is not going the way you need it to go, create your own!

My father set up his first business in the 1970s so that he could support his family.

I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.

I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations.

Stop hoping for a promotion that's not coming. Instead, start a business at which you want to work.

I started The Body Shop in 1976 simply to create a livelihood for myself and my two daughters, while my husband, Gordon, was trekking across the Americas. I had no training or experience and my only business acumen was Gordon's advice to take sales of £300 a week. Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

I don't make records for pleasure. I did when I was a younger artist, but I don't today. I record so that I can feed people what they need, what they feel. Hopefully, I record so that I can help someone overcome a bad time

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.

The motivation to me is to make money and not be dependent upon the shallow pool called the entertainment world or the rap world or the hip-hop world.