Ronald Kessler Quotes

I take commissions because I know I'll have to get up early in the morning and work.

I care about the work I do. But I'm not going to say that money's not an issue.

I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it.

My philosophy is if you're going to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for not a whole lot of money, why work for someone you're not gonna be loyal to?

The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that's happened. But I didn't become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons.

I never wanted to take a job because I needed money, and I never have.

My career has mostly been jobs I love or cases where I needed money.

And I would never accept a film because of the money. I have enough money.

Many players want to make as much money as they can and change teams for ten grand. How is that going to make much difference to their lives?

I have earned enough money in my life. When I started my career, for about 10 years, I told myself I want to make money. Now, I just want to do different roles.

Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

I'd watch my parents work and think, 'Yeah, I'm going to do that.' It wasn't even a thing. It's the only thing I know how to do.

So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company.

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

I have never been motivated by money.

Now I don't work for the money or the glory. I just work because I like building businesses.

There was a revolution going on at home. Why didn't I earn some money? Why didn't I do something practical, like chicken farming?

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.

Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.

There's no amount of money that would make me decide something for a career.

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for the mortgage payment.

I work because I want to work. Work keeps me going.