I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

If you’ve ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you’ll find that men fold at the knees a lot quicker than women.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose… I know what my job is. And I always ran from it.

The rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.

I was always singing but didn’t plan on pursuing it seriously. When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn – I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point – and that was it.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

I run New York City!

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it’s about a lot more than being able to make money.

I’m no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.

A true capitalist doesn’t have a job, because other people and other people’s money work for them.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.

When I was 16… I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because… they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

It is my job to help the players react better.

I’m a workin‘ girl.

Millions of Americans and people around the world, especially young people who face intense financial challenges today, haven’t been taught how to take control of their financial future.

An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say ‚LOL.‘ Just what? But it means ‚laugh.‘ Why don’t you just laugh? What are you doing?

I’ve taken so many kids out of Pittsburgh and onto the great white way in New York City right into a Broadway show.

But being on location and shooting, whether its in Puerto Rico or Atlanta, it always reminds me of how really cool my job can be. Interacting with the fans is one of the best parts of it.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

Money for me today does not really matter.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.

Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.

You reach a point where you don’t work for money.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?