Lauren Graham Quotes

When you love what you do, it pays off, and that's the best reward you could have.

Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

I do not just play for money.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Do what you like, but like what you do.

Fun is the most important. If you do stuff for money, it never works out.

I never do anything for money; I get paid a lot of money as a by-product.

In the beginning, I didn't have to love them, my acts. It was mostly about being successful, getting a trophy, and making some money. Now if I don't love the idea of it, I don't work on it.

My work is all that I think about because I spent so many years not doing anything. Therefore, work pleases me, which is success in itself.

I never consider what I do as work. It has been fun. It's been rewarding and very fulfilling.

I don't care what you do for a living. If you love it, you are a success.

Find something to do that you love because then the work itself is always the reward not the recompense. And if you love what you're doing you probably do better at it than doing something you don't love and therefore you'll be compensated appropriately.

I never went into business just to make money - but I found that if I have fun, the money will come. I often ask myself, is my work fun and does it make me happy? I believe that the answer to that is more important than fame or fortune. If it stops being fun, I ask why? If I can't fix it, I stop doing it.

What I've learned from the Pixar guys is 'If you work for the love of what you're doing, it's always going to come out right.' Cause if you're working for a paycheck then it's not going to work in the long run; it's not going to feed your heart and soul.

You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.

If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it.

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

I only am in this business because I enjoy it. I think that is the only way to be in the business.

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.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Now I don't work for the money or the glory. I just work because I like building businesses.

I've done all this stuff because it's fun. It's never been about fame.

I believe that we have been doing this not primarily to achieve riches or even honour, but rather because we were interested in the work, enjoyed doing it and felt very strongly that it was worthwhile.

The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.