Hillary Clinton Quotes

I don't have kids, a mortgage, or a car. That has let me hold out for the jobs I want to do, and to sit in a cold room in the winter with fingerless gloves, writing.

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.

I remember saying in college that I would never do commercials.

I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.

I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.

I've never liked the idea of working for other people.

I am in the position where I don't have to work for the sake of working, so I'm very lucky, in a sense. So, I can always sit back and wait for a project that I respond to, that I want to do.

Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.

Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.

I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.

I've turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

I don't make money doing my podcast. I've learned that people want to hire creative people who are already doing something when they approach them.

The expectation was I would get married and become a mother and settle down. We didn't have any role models. We saw teachers and doctors and nurses, but I'm not a teacher, and there was no possibility of being a doctor or a nurse. I had to work and find my own way.

I've had wonderfully lucrative offers to do another network series. I could do that again and have a very luscious retirement.

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

I never got one cent from the government or from China so I am very independent.

Jay and I used to talk about this: we never had a goal of making a lot of money. We had a goal of having a business of our own. And there were many times we could have sold out and had a lot of money. Billions. We just put it in our pocket and go home, OK? But that was never our goal.

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

I've been able to become an entrepreneur and an independent artist.

I was tall and skinny, and at 15, I was approached to model. I figured that models got to travel, and it became my ticket to travel so much so that if an agency could not fly me to another country, I would fly on my cost so that I could see that country and also make some money.

If you want to make your own decisions about where you work, what you do, what you earn and what you buy, then being able to make money is an important factor.

If someone can make money from you, you can do more things, and eventually, you can do things you come up with.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.

I want to deal with the truth and a proper education that will not allow us to be educated and then come out and beg another man for a job when you should be creating a job for yourself.