Shane West Quotes

I've been crazy lucky that I've never had a day job. I get really close to having no money, then I always wind up getting some kind of great job.

If you happen to be in the right place at the right time, the capitalist system is a beautiful thing.

I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.

I've been very, very fortunate. I never had to work for a living.

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'm proud I've been able to pay my rent doing what I love because I hate real jobs.

Ariana Grande is a billionaire before she's been an artist. You have to work to be able to appreciate what you have... what work did she ever have to do in her life?

Jay and I used to talk about this: we never had a goal of making a lot of money. We had a goal of having a business of our own. And there were many times we could have sold out and had a lot of money. Billions. We just put it in our pocket and go home, OK? But that was never our goal.

To be a billionaire, you have got to get lucky.

I've been able to become an entrepreneur and an independent artist.

It's good to have experience in other ventures and have other goals. Like acting, having businesses, starting from zero and making something grow.

It doesn't take anything to be a businessman.

In 2008, after holding down a day job for all of six weeks, I gave up on the whole job thing to pursue an online business. At the time, I had absolutely no clue what I was doing, but I figured if I was going to be broke and miserable, I might as well be while working on my own terms.

This is the dream: to make money off of what you love.

Hard work. Well, that=s all right for people who don=t know how to do anything else. It=s all right for people who aren=t lucky. But once you==re lucky, you don=t have to work for other people. You make them work for you.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

I don't have kids, a mortgage, or a car. That has let me hold out for the jobs I want to do, and to sit in a cold room in the winter with fingerless gloves, writing.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

That's a tough question; I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.

The excitement of being a Task Rabbit is that you can create your own businesses and become an entrepreneur. We're creating jobs for people in this economy. Some of the Task Rabbits are cashing out at $5,000 per month.

If you're lucky enough to be raised in a rich family, good. But learn how to respect that luck. It's not a given, you know? It's not like, 'Well, it's normal'. No, it's not normal. It's lucky.

Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.

You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.