W. H. Auden Quotes

My goal is to be able to provide for myself and not have to worry about the daily expenses. I do want to be able to benefit from my work and make a good living, but I love it so much that I would do it for free.

My life was made easy - I lived in a village, and by writing for some newspapers and magazines, had enough to live on. I was happy to be there and write.

I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

I don't have to be a 'gazillionaire;' what's important to me is to just being able to work.

For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.

My business doesn't keep me warm at night.

Life started getting good when I started making money.

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

When I was a child, there was very little money, so I've always been concerned for my financial security, which has meant that finding myself as a writer was a bad move. The practical difference the money has made is that I can support myself by fiction. That is what I have been trying to do throughout my life.

You want to strike that happy medium: the balance of being able to find creative satisfaction in your profession, be able to afford a roof over your head, but still have the freedom to live a relatively normal life.

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 always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I've learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, 'cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

The best piece of advice I ever got from anyone was when Spike Jonze said, 'Take money out of the equation.' And that's actually when Vice started making lots of money. That's when I stopped worrying about money and started worrying about what I wanted to do.

I currently live independently without any funded support. I'm educated, and I'm employed. I enjoy paying my taxes and contributing to the economic life of Australia.

It's never been about making money.

My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I don't have to do anything I don't want to.

I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.

I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.

I never wanted to take a job because I needed money, and I never have.

I want to be doing something that I love and actually being able to feed myself by doing it.

Financial independence is paramount. My mom always says that when a woman is financially independent, she has the ability to live life on her own terms. I think that was the soundest advice that I ever got. No matter where you go in life or who you get married to, you have to be financially independent - whether you use it or not.

For me, being successful meant not having to do my laundry at a laundromat and not having a second job.

I'm living in Hollywood, and I'm making movies, but it goes beyond me. If my family is not doing very well, or even OK, you want them to be better.

I've had days here and there where I would get discouraged because I wasn't a big star, but I've made a living ever since I was 27. Not a great living, but enough for me. I think actually being able to pay my rent and eat and perform is enough, and I did that for many years. Then I had some good years in there, too, where I made pretty good money.

I don't know why modeling worked for me, because I'm short. But I liked it because it let me buy my own furniture.