Quotes About Self-reliance

Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday.

I don't feel like taking anybody's money.

I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.

Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'

I've had no money, absolutely, from my family. They paid for a good education - or schools that purported to be a good education - but, um, not a dime.

The darkest hour of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.

Money should not dictate how I live my life..I must take charge and become the master of money, so that I decide what I want to do with my time.

I don't spend money on books. I write them myself.

If only employees knew this...there is no hand out just because you got a degree. You still gotta make $ for the biz (employer), if you choose not to make $ for yourself (freelancer / ent).

Same Money or Nobody will save you.

Simple life is always good. Fortune should not be created on other's money.

Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.

Don't let anyone control how much, and who you give to-people have a way of spending your money

All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden to others. -Bishop Milton Wright

In the meantime, I'll get a job. I'll pay my own way." "A job?" "Mmm, yeah. It's that thing people do to make money.

Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.

For me, the biggest thing with money has always been independence - just the biggest.

To me, money is independence. It gives you freedom to do what you really want to do. It allows you to not be dependent on anyone or anything, and so you can be yourself and follow your passion.

I didn't grow up with a lot of money, so my mom didn't have random money to buy me a car, and I didn't have money to have a car unless I worked, so I didn't get a car until I got my first job at 18.

My mom lived with me until I started making enough money to support myself. I was asking her to leave the entire time. I'd been ready to move out since I was, like, 14.

I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual.

Any woman who does not thoroughly enjoy tramping across the country on a clear frosty morning with a good gun and a pair of dogs does not know how to enjoy life.

go home, riley. rest and recover from your wounds. i'll see you in the morning" quinn said no, you won't ####### see me in the morning. or any other morning. riley" #### off