When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose… I know what my job is. And I always ran from it.

When I ask people to give, I can’t be on television if they don’t; I can’t help people, if I don’t – I mean, it takes money.

Money’s important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don’t have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

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

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

Money has a language of its own.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

When you give up yourself, that’s when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that’s giving that’s serving others and that’s when you feel fulfilled.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

It’s amazing how people will give when you don’t ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

I’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.