Rza Quotes

There's sacrifice involved. Either you're going to work a lot and not get to spend time with your kid, or you're going to spend a ton of time with your kid, and you're sacrificing your career.

I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.

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

When you are young and impecunious, society conditions you to exchange time for money, and this is quite as it should be. Very few people are hurt by having to work for a living. But as you become more affluent, it somehow is very, very difficult to reverse that process and begin trading money for time.

Money shouldn't be the driver for where you spend your time.

I have a very good life, a high quality of life. I have both money and time. No one has that.

A host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated.

It's hard, and I don't always get to see my kids. I will never catch up on that time I've missed.

Sometimes I just think we get caught up in the entertainment aspect of this business and people kind of forget that this is the way we feed our families and this is our livelihoods.

My mother insists women must have financial independence, which is why I completed my degree in medicine.

I never chose something just for the money.

Big money causes me too much trouble with my ex-wives and the government. All I want is to keep busy and to be comfortable.

I'd like to have permanent time off, really. The goal is financial security and permanent time off, basically.

Money is the fuel for choices. Money gives me choices, so it's not nothing, it's something. But it's not the end all, be all. There are other things in my life that I did not purchase with money that are very valuable.

No, no; women, old or young, should never have to think about money.

Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.

Some people want to give money to their children, buy houses, go on a holiday - whatever it is that they want to invest in. This particular journey has been something that I wanted to do most of my life, but there was no real opportunity to do so.

There are people who are not wealthy because they want to be comfortable.

[Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from the writing of my precious books.

We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.

Every woman with a career has to make sacrifices when it comes to her children. It's no different with me, as a political activist, than with businesswomen, of which there are thankfully more and more in Russia. Or a female cabinet minister.

Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce - to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth.

I am enjoying myself and I do not mind the loss of personal time and family time when I am doing good films.

Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kids life better and ruining your own.

I've got bills to pay like everyone else. I'm a high-earner but I don't see myself as rich. I know in some people's eyes I probably am, but I will always have to work. My son Matt asked me if we were rich the other day and I told him that in my view, being rich is not having to get up to go to work. I can't see myself ever being in that position.