Jasmine Guinness Quotes

I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.

I don't get handed money - and I never will. I have to work!

I have inherited nothing. Everything Ann and I have we have earned the old-fashioned way.

Being self-supporting is important to me.

The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.

I work hard and support myself.

My parents instilled a really good work ethic from when I was little - if you want to have money to spend on holidays, you earn it. So I've always been someone who wanted to be able to survive by myself, but I think you have to let down the barriers a little bit - let other people in.

I always told my girls growing up that I would not baby them through life, and no matter how blessed they are financially, they have to get an education!

I've always had a job. I left home when I was 16, and you have to look after yourself.

I want to earn my own way, I like having nice things but I've never accepted anything I haven't earned.

You never work for somebody else. Someone else might sign your check, but you're the one who fills in the amount.

I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.

I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

I wasn't sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

I'm not a trust-fund child. I think my father's got a healthy work ethic, and therefore, I think it just came with the part. You've got to look after yourself.

My son's going to have a job, and if he wants to get a car when he gets his license, he's going to pay for it on his own like I did.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.

I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.

I'm not a trust-fund type.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.