Jimmy Wales Quotes

I'm going to do everything I'm supposed to do - except roommates. No roommates. I quietly paid for my own room on the road. I didn't want to tell anyone.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.

Solitude is independence.

I'm trying to do it my way. For me to be happy in the business means I have to do it myself.

I don't need YouTube's money. I have my own money.

I just go at my own pace and I like control of the TV and I like to decide when I take a shower and wash the dishes and stuff like that. So I don't know who would want to live with me to be honest!

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world.

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

I'm for economic independence.

I've always earned my own money and enjoy being independent. It's how I was brought up.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

Everyone needs to be able to have their own space in which to be themselves.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

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

It's amazing living alone. I'm very lucky. It's like a refuge.

The people of America need personal responsibility and freedom, not dependency on the government.

I feel very lucky that I don't have to rely on a man to give me financial security. That's a big deal.

I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?

I am a woman who, you know, I run my own business. I don't need a man financially, for anything, but just to be a companion.

I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes I really enjoy being as alone as possible.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.