Ben Askren Quotes

I am not motivated by money.

Some people are motivated by money - I'm not one of them.

Doing something because it's quote-unquote a good career move doesn't really appeal to me.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.

Money's important, but it isn't a motivator for me.

Only when you are self-employed do you fully realize how much more efficient you become when your output directly correlates with how much money you make.

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

I'm not interested in the mad race. I just like working with good people.

I accept a role only if it's something I really, really like.

I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.

I have never been motivated by money.

I work to live, not live to work, so my head's at home, not in some showbiz life.

Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term.

Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.

I have to have a creative role; otherwise, I simply wouldn't come into work.

I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.

I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now.

There's no amount of money that would make me decide something for a career.

I can't be bought with money. If someone calls me and asks me to work for them for three or four years, and they'll pay me well to build their vacation home, I ask myself why I should work three or four years on something like that.

Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.

Money is just a low priority for me. I'm more interested in good work than a big bank account.

Unless I have to, I can't take a job for the money. Unless my children are going to be out on the street, I have to be a little bit picky.

Though decisions regarding work/life balance are important and vary widely from person to person, it may not be wise in the long run to optimize for doing the bare minimum at work.

They say, 'We will give you money, but we want you to play this or that.' And I always thought, 'If I'm going to do that, I might as well go back and be a dishwasher.'