I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

I never expected any sort of success with ‚Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Of course, I do everything for money.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

When I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

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

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

At one point, I didn’t care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

God’s desire is that we excel.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.