The payroll tax increase was destructive financially, it took what was a close call and made it a bad call.
Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.
Most people never get wealthy simply because they are not trained financially to recognize opportunities right in front of them. The rich have learned to recognize opportunities as well as how to create them
What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.
I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost. I don't really need to do that, and I thought if I could do something for sport in Scotland, that would be really fulfilling.
When there's more lows than highs and I'm not just talking financially, it may be time to see what else is out there for you. Even at this point, I am open to the possibility that there may be another chapter on the horizon and I trust that I'll know in my heart when it's time to close the chapter on this one. I am much more than just an actor. It is what I do now and I try not to get boxed in by the belief that that is all I have to offer the world as my work.
I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.
TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
Because students leave school without financial skills, millions of educated people pursue their profession successfully, but later find themselves, struggling financially.
How should we provide for our families? Financially, spatially (be near them), emotionally, morally, spiritually. . . . I don't have what it takes to provide for my family spiritually; I need Jesus.
Community is woven from gifts, which is ultimately why poor people often have stronger communities than rich people. If you are financially independent, then you really don't depend on your neighbors for anything. You can just pay someone to do it.
You cannot be spiritually free and financially bound.
People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.
The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.
Part of the reason some Japanese companies have underperformed financially was corporate governance and board structures.
One of the primary reasons why people struggle financially is because they cannot control their emotion of fear.
After you marry, every asset either of you acquires is jointly held. That's why you both need to be in sync on your long-term financial goals, from paying off the mortgage to putting away for retirement. Ideally, you should talk about all this before you wed. If you don't, you can end up deeply frustrated and financially spent.
I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.
Success financially is a measure of creative success, it is the same in all arts.
There were times when I would suddenly realize making music is a crazy pipe dream. I would see bands that did super well in South Africa still struggling to survive, or even people on the international level who are doing well but financially can't really support themselves.