Chris Gardner Quotes

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

I'm worth far too much money. I don't need anybody's money.

Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.

When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.

I never had confidence - never. The hardest thing to know is your own worth, and it took me years and years to find out what mine is.

I've been charging what I deserve. I believe I am worth every penny of it, and if filmmakers think so, too, they will pay me.

I think I am worth a lot of money.

I don't know if I'm worth 80m euros, but I don't worry about the sums.

I've been the best in the world, and I believe my self worth, it's more important to me than my net worth.

I really don't care if anyone thinks I'm special or not, I just want to be able to live my life without thinking about money all the time, or where I'm going to get it.

I see myself as what I'm worth.

Your net worth is not the same thing as your self-worth. Your value is not based on your valuables.

Self worth and net worth are not the same.

I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.

If you're comfortable with what you have and who you are, you'll automatically be more comfortable talking about your finances.

I don't always understand my worth.

It is important to find worth in yourself.

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

If nothing else, I have money.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much.

We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don't like us. Women tend to worry about popularity; it doesn't matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.