Elliott Erwitt Quotes

I believe that one of the things I've tried to do is work hard and take the business very seriously.

I've been crazy lucky that I've never had a day job. I get really close to having no money, then I always wind up getting some kind of great job.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.

The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

I work for everything I've got. I started off as a very poor kid. I want to get paid.

I don't think anybody ever started a great business because they wanted to make a little more cash. They had a dream. They wanted to better their life.

I think that in the earlier days, when I was a 'wantrepreneur,' I was really doing things because I thought what I wanted was to be rich.

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

Jay and I used to talk about this: we never had a goal of making a lot of money. We had a goal of having a business of our own. And there were many times we could have sold out and had a lot of money. Billions. We just put it in our pocket and go home, OK? But that was never our goal.

I was never money conscious. I would never have succeeded if I thought I was going to be a millionaire.

Getting rich is about fun. It's a game, and you have to treat it that way.

Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial. The young people I meet want more freedom - to start firms, keep more of what they earn, and move to areas with opportunities without paying a fortune.

I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better, I got my own barbershop. I had a lot of clients in my hometown, so I wouldn't stop cutting hair. That's why I think I have such discipline in my job because I've always been very responsible.

I took the same pride in my dishwashing job as a child as I take in running my company today.

You don't need money to go big.

The worst that could happen is I lose my company and go back to being a waitress. I don't think money's a great aspiration for a lot of people that succeed. They they have other motivations that turn them on. And money was not one of mine.

You get yourself out there and you work hard, and you hope that word of mouth carries and one day somebody will actually step up to the plate and say, 'I believe that you can do this.'

You get rich because you do things most people will not do. Success requires sacrifice. You must be willing to make those sacrifices.

I'm working full time on my job and part time on my fortune

Sometimes you gotta work a little, so you can ball a lot.