Clay Shirky Quotes

Money is a function of value creation. The more value you create for other people, the higher the sales of your organization.

If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.

I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.

If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.

Nothing that comes easy is worth a dime.

It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.

I think expressing yourself and working hard can't help but have great results. Look at Zach Galifanakis. He didn't tweet. He didn't have a podcast. He just went out and did the funniest standup you'll ever see in your life. And he was rewarded for that.

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.

Nothing of value is free.

If you have talent, then success will come to you.

Anything worth having is worth working for.

The amount of work we have to do to get to that Octagon, we should be getting paid what we're worth.

People can say the money doesn't really matter but it does show you how much a club respects you.

The only time it's ever like work is when you don't like what you've done. I'm very lucky in that I haven't cultivated fame. Which, from what I've seen of my contemporaries, takes an enormous amount of time. I have a lot of respect for people that do it and they're successful at it ... Especially people that aren't such talented actors.

Making shots counts, but not as much as the people who make them.

When you do more than you're paid for eventually you'll be paid for more than you do.

If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.

American young people have got to understand from an early age that the world pays off on results, not on effort. Not everyone should win a prize no matter where he or she finishes.

Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.

I don't need every customer. I'm primarily in the business of selling a product for money. How much effort do I really want to devote to satisfying people who are unable or extremely unlikely to pay for anything?

In this world, you get what you pay for.

The thing I always say is that I wasn't going out reaching for roles, I wasn't fighting for roles - people came to me. They always came to me.

What I've seen in my own life is that when I get something important done it's because of a lot of other people - some who get credit, some who don't.

Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all.

Hard work pays off if you're patient enough to see it through.