Kevin Systrom Quotes

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.

Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.

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

I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!

I got alright GCSEs, but I was lost. I didn't know what to do, whether to continue with education, go to uni, go to art school - then again, I was like, 'Maybe I should just go and get a job, start early and make money.'

When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.

Modeling is not a passion of mine. I have been having fun with it, but it's just to pay the bills.

My career has mostly been jobs I love or cases where I needed 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 almost didn't turn pro at all. I was tempted to be a career amateur. I worked as an investment banker for nine months after I got out of school, and the money was fantastic and promised to get even more lucrative.

I liked money more than going to school.

I never think career.

I try to cover myself, to have another movie under way before the last one comes out. I've been able to just scrape by, holding out for good parts instead of taking anything.

I'm not driven by the mighty dollar.

I try not to and I don't think I ever have just jumped at any opportunity because a company wanted me. Just because there was money on the table doesn't mean that I took it.

You're always thinking, What's the next move - the career, the money.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

I wanted to make money very fast, and I was completely confused after college. I didn't know what career options I had. And then I had this entry point in the film industry, and I thought, 'If this is where the fast money is going to come from, let's see how it goes.'

Your life is not defined by the one place where you work.

If you would be just as content winning a local Golden Gloves fight as you would making a pile of money as a professional, then fine, go become a boxer. But if the whole idea is for you to get rich, my God, stay in school and learn a profession.

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.

I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.

I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.

I can't imagine myself not working. And I hope my daughter will work when she's older.