$3,000 from a residual cheque was all I made one year.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I spent my entire first pay cheque from 'Cracker,' a TV show on ABC, on an Audi because my other car broke down and I needed to get to work.
I want a regular pay cheque.
I was $4,000 short on my first payroll.
I probably wouldn't have done as many as I did in one year, which I did when I was trying to raise money.
My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.
I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me.
After being on 'Oprah' for a couple of months, I got my first royalty check for $1,478,392.17. I will never forget it. At the height of my career, I made $3.3 million. Unbelievable. From welfare in the projects to $3.3 million.
I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasn't.
Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.
I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.