Penn Jillette Quotes

I am somehow allowed by the universe to do exactly what I want to do to make a living.

Exactly what I'm doing is what success looks like. I get to create on my own terms, on my own timeline, and I'm able to support myself and my mom and my cat comfortably.

What I love about how my career has gone up to this point is that I've always, always put my head down on my pillow at night, and I've been able to say that I've done, honestly, what I've felt like I wanted to do. And that's really all you can hope for in everything you do.

For a man without hobbies, I stand in a wonderful spot, where what I do is my best hobby, and everything else is a poor second.

I have the distinct pleasure of doing exactly what I want to do and get paid for it. It's a joy.

I like the idea of not having to do stuff for the money, and if I want to, I can pick indie projects for the rest of my life and be quite happy doing that.

Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.

I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

If there's some triumphant end of the story, I guess in a roundabout way I've gotten what I wanted, which is the ability to do interesting things and the wealth to be free.

I had always wanted to run my own show and focus solely on the writing, and that's what 'Survivor's Remorse' has been for me.

I am one of the lucky people in the world: I found something I always wanted to do, and I have enjoyed every single minute of it.

I had a dream, and I'm living it.

I think that titles are for, I don't know, books and stuff. I just like doing what I'm doing.

I am lucky enough not to have to take jobs unless I love the material.

I live every day the job that I dreamed of as a boy.

My work gave me everything and allowed me to live out my passion.

I'm in a small percentage of people that get to do what they love to do for a living. I'm lucky.

I'm going to do anything in my power to keep creating the path that I want to go down and I want to be a part of and be involved with, and whether or not that means superstardom or making music for the rest of my life and not having to work at a coffee shop, I'm fine. I'm happy. I'm stoked for whatever opportunity arises.

You don't do everything in life in order to make money.

My career is important but it's not the be-all and end-all of my life.

Every day of my life is a dream goal.

I find success to be being able to do what you love and provide for your family by doing what you love.

What is success? I think the most important thing is to achieve what you set out to achieve. Just being a CEO in itself is not success. I would not relate success to a title or a position. My career has had a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years.