Oprah Winfrey Quotes

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

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

There's a lot of freedom in having nothing. You don't have responsibility. You have nobody to answer to. But I'd rather deal without the poverty.

Today it is only the rich who are "free". They employ their time wisely or foolishly as they choose. They ask no one's permission and seek no one's advice whether they shall squander their substance in riotous living or devote themselves to good works. What they do with their time is their own affair. In the future such freedom would be open to everybody.

Having money gives me the freedom to worry about the things that really matter.

Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.

I don't look at money as success. I look at it as an avenue to freedom.

Money equals freedom.

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.

I'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I can do nothing. I'm not a slave to the dollar.

The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.

I'm for economic independence.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

For the rich, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.

I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it.

All men who would obtain freedom must obtain wealth

The nice part about being wealthy is I can do what I want to do. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. But I have to be honest.

Though freedom and wealth are both good things which most of us desire and though we often need both to obtain what we wish, they still remain different. Whether or not I am my own master and can follow my own choice and whether the possibilities from which I must choose are many or few are two entirely different questions. The courtier living in the lap of luxury but at the beck and call of his prince may be much less free than a poor peasant or artisan, less able to live his own life and to choose his own opportunities for usefulness.

You can always go back to not making any money, and then you get the freedom. And I'm going to continue doing it, because it really is a fantastic sense of liberation.

Money buys you the freedom to live your life the way you want.

Not that that's my goal, but when you're very wealthy and very famous, you can have a lot more decisions in what you do. You have a lot more opportunity. You can maybe even not work for a few years. It puts you in a great position to make some decisions. You're not always taking every job that comes and that kind of thing.

Money gives you the freedom to do with your time what you want to do with it

Money bought freedom; without it one could never be free.

I do think, you know, you don't have to have 30 billion, but you have a certain level of freedom.