Jack Ma Quotes

Being self-supporting is important to me.

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

My security comes from the fact that I've never done a job for money.

I'm independent. I use my own money. For everything.

My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.

I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

Even though I wasn't sure I could make it as an indie, almost immediately I felt as if a weight had been lifted off me. To be as independent as I am and to be able to support myself is incredibly satisfying. Everything I want to do myself, I can.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

I've always paid my own way, I've never lived off anyone.

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

I've always been pretty self-sufficient. I never had to borrow money from my mum, even in the early days.

I'm not ever going to be dependent on someone else for a job.

I've supported myself since 'Tigerland.'

I'm not beholden to anyone. I'm not waiting for a pension or a carriage clock.

I always liked having my own money and buying my own stuff. I didn't want to depend on somebody to do it for me.

I pay for my own things, and that's how I've always been since I was 15.

You don't need to depend on a label, because you're making that money on your own.

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth .

I've spent my life supporting myself.

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

I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.

I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.

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 pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.