Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

We are what we believe we are.

I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Don’t hold against me that I don’t own – that I don’t own a single stock or bond. Don’t hold it – I have no savings accounts.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

I think that success is having fun.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.

Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I’m the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.