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.

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?

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

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

Money ain’t everything.

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

It is my job to help the players react better.

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.

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

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

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

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

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.

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

Money for me today does not really matter.

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.

I don’t need to publish to make a living.

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

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

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

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

I run New York City!

Most of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life wears us down. We settle into some job and slowly give in to the illusion that our bosses care about us and our future, that they spend time thinking of our welfare.

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’m a workin‘ girl.

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

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

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.

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

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.

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.

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.

Money has to serve, not to rule.

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.

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ‚cause it’s life or death for real.

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

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

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

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.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

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

I want to retire and want to be able to live out my days financially secure. That’s what everyone wants.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

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.

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

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.

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.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

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.

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

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.‘

This is not a showman’s job. I will not step out of character.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

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

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

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

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

I began playing Monopoly for real when I was 26 years old. Today, my wife and I have approximately 1,400 little green houses – each paying us monthly. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or have a Harvard degree to play Monopoly for real.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.