Tracey Emin Quotes

I really do like to work. I will work again. But on my terms.

I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for the mortgage payment.

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?

Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on.

When we first started we felt something changing in terms of work, and we felt it was a global shift. People were taking control of their future, not just in terms of making money. They wanted to control their own destiny.

I'm not ambitious and I don't need to work for The Man.

For a rich and reasonably successful guy, it is impossible not to enjoy your job; otherwise, why would you spend so much time and effort doing it? I am a great fan of Norilsk, and I like this kind of challenge.

If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don't have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.

I am in the position where I don't have to work for the sake of working, so I'm very lucky, in a sense. So, I can always sit back and wait for a project that I respond to, that I want to do.

I'd never take a job where I had to do something that I didn't want to do.

I've finally reached a stage in my career where I can do what I want.

It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions.

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.

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 have earned enough money in my life. When I started my career, for about 10 years, I told myself I want to make money. Now, I just want to do different roles.

Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.

I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.

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

I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

At the end of the day, I don't need to work, and I think it's good that I have the drive and willpower to get up and do something in the morning even though I don't need to.

I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn't passionate about engineering. I was always set on having my own business, controlling my own destiny.

I don't work at something because I think it's important. I work at things that, to me, are interesting.

I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.