Lewis Howes Quotes

I'm proud I've been able to pay my rent doing what I love because I hate real jobs.

My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.

The future of work is really about people deciding to live and work in the way that they want.

I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.

I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.

To have been able to do this for so long and to not have to work a regular job is a thrill.

I love the fact that I don't have a real job!

When I graduated college, I remember all I really wanted was to make enough money to have a swimming pool, because I love to swim, to grow my own fruit. I wanted to have a little plot where I could grow my own oranges and make enough money where I could to take two weeks off a year. I figured if I had that, it was game over.

But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.

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?

I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself.

You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.

If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.

I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.

I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quite clearly before I left school.

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 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.

I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to have another job. It gives you something to do.

Working as a model liberated me from ever having to hold a day job. I transitioned from doing that to working full-time as an artist. If you're 19 and living cheap, being an artist model can sustain you.

I've never had a day job. I've been very fortunate.

I've been able to become an entrepreneur and an independent artist.

I hope for little girls and boys that there is a future where they can make choices about how they raise their family and what sort of career they have, which is based on what they want and what makes them happy.

I never felt like the nine to five mentality is for me.

Being an entrepreneur does, of course, give you greater freedom than someone who is tied to a fixed work schedule, but you'd be mistaken to think that you're going to have it easier than your 9-5 counterparts.