Robbie Robertson Quotes

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it.

I get to do what I want. And I get paid millions of dollars to do it.

The result of my hard work is that I'm financially independent, I have an amazing life, and I can do whatever I want. I don't have to answer to anybody.

The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.

I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.

I don't need YouTube's money. I have my own money.

The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.

To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff that I believe in, I can say no a lot and spend time writing - that is a gift.

The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world.

I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

There's a lot of freedom in having nothing. You don't have responsibility. You have nobody to answer to. But I'd rather deal without the poverty.

I wasn't ever interested in marrying someone else's career or bank account.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.

All men who would obtain freedom must obtain wealth

Today it is only the rich who are "free". They employ their time wisely or foolishly as they choose. They ask no one's permission and seek no one's advice whether they shall squander their substance in riotous living or devote themselves to good works. What they do with their time is their own affair. In the future such freedom would be open to everybody.

I don't have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.

My security comes from the fact that I've never done a job for money.

There's nothing free. Stay independent and don't fall.

The one thing I wanted was independence. And I realised to have that independence, you needed financial independence.