Vanna Bonta Quotes

Whatever you dream is you find a way to get there, even if you're not paid a lot. Do it for the love of what you do.

Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.

I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

I believe that we have been doing this not primarily to achieve riches or even honour, but rather because we were interested in the work, enjoyed doing it and felt very strongly that it was worthwhile.

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

My work is my worship, and that's what means the most to me.

I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.

The money is nice, but I am not in this game for the money.

Do the work you believe in - if there's an authentic reason for doing it.

Find something to do that you love because then the work itself is always the reward not the recompense. And if you love what you're doing you probably do better at it than doing something you don't love and therefore you'll be compensated appropriately.

Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.

I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know my work is done by me. But I can pass that up. I like to have tenants made happy by my work. But that doesn't matter too much. The only thing that matters, my goal, my reward, my beginning, my end is the work itself. My work done my way. Peter, there's nothing in the world that you can offer me, except this. Offer me this and you can have anything I've got to give. My work done my way. A private, personal, selfish, egotistical motivation. That's the only way I function. That's all I am.

The professional, though he accepts money, does his work out of love. He has to love it. Otherwise he wouldn’t devote his life to it of his own free will.

I care about being paid fairly for what I do. When I approach a project, I put my whole heart and soul into it. Because I really care about it.

The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

If I would be in this business for business, I wouldn't be in this business.

My siblings and I were raised to be very hardworking and to find something that we're passionate in, and to be able to turn that into work - I'm lucky to be able to say that I've done that.

It's not about earning a paycheck, it's about doing something good that you believe in.

I would pay to do what I do if I had to.

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.