Tom Benson Quotes

I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.

I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me.

From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

I didn't come from a wealthy family. My dad told us if we wanted spending money, we had to earn it. So I developed an early work ethic.

I don't get handed money - and I never will. I have to work!

I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

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

I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.

When you're a self-made man, you start very early in life. In my case it was at 9 years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited.

I wasn't sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.

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.

Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.

If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

I started my first business at 14!

Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.

Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.

As for money - when I have it, it's great. When I don't, I go get some. I've been a dishwasher, a gardener, a cleaner.

I started working when I was seven, and ever since then I've been saving for an apartment. Even before that I had a little jam jar designated for my apartment money.