Aaron Johnson Quotes

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

I was always a bit old for my age, then suddenly I'm on set, working alongside the adults, skipping school completely for two years.

I had to work from a young age.

From the time I was very young, I was a professional, making money and assuming responsibilities. I didn't live the life of a child. I was living the life of a 30-year-old.

I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

I grew up pretty fast. I had more responsibility than most 9-year-olds, and I've always been independent.

During my childhood, I felt older than my years because I felt responsible for my brothers and sisters.

Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17.

I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning 10 pounds a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15.

My children were taught at an early age how money works and that it comes from hard work. They've been on a commission - not an allowance - since they were little. They learned that if they worked around the house, they got paid. If they didn't work, they didn't get paid.

I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.

My brother and I always had jobs and worked from a young age.

Starting at age 10, my personality and my identity all stemmed from employment. I had a set to be at. I was a certain way with the cameraman, a certain way with the makeup lady - a normal, routine environment.

My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months.

When you work and earn money as a child, you need to be confident, but it can make you a bit precocious, and I think I was a bit of a pain for a while when I was young.

I've lived the life of a 35-year-old since I was 18.

It is critical that kids start to learn the value of money, short-term and long-term saving and budgeting at an early age.

In the past, I never gave money to my children when they were young in return for nothing. When one of them approached me to give them cash, I asked them to do some work in exchange for it.

You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.

I was working probably at the age of 10, when I had my first paper route. I had every different kind of job you could possibly imagine as a young kid.

Both parents were hard-working and made me work for my pocket money by doing household chores. That taught me the value of money and gave me a strong work ethic.

I bought my first house at 19-years old.

I've had more life experiences than most people that are older than me.

All the young people grow up too fast and want to be able to do this, or that. When you get to the older age and you have a mortgage, bills, this and that you think: "If I had done that differently when I was younger, then I wouldn't be in this situation now."

Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.