Sam Elliott 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.

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

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

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

I don't have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.

You will never have to marry for money. You will never have to depend on anyne but yourself.

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.

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

I'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I can do nothing. I'm not a slave to the dollar.

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

Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.

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'm for economic independence.

I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.

I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

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.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.

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

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

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.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.