Now, if you think the money is the end of the effort, you’re making a bad mistake there too, because it actually is merely a representation of your creativeness, that’s all it is. It merely represents it in some fashion. And if your creativeness is good, you don’t have to worry about saving any money.
Your best investment is your own skill and your ability to put things back together again, your ability to stand on two feet and live—that’s your best investment in the world.
Excerpted from a lecture given by L. Ron Hubbard 10 February 1956
People have this idea of a job meaning security and it's not security at all. The only secure person in a fluctuating society is one who has something of the entrepreneur, something of the entrepreneur. In other words, he must be able to put into existence business, action, commodity, money. He must be able to do something about it. He must have, himself, some control over money, commodity and other things before he, himself, can have any real security at all.
Excerpted from the lecture Survival: Question and Answer Period by L. Ron Hubbard given on 12 March 1957