Kathy Ireland Quotes

The money, the fame, if that comes, that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, my aim is to go to sleep at night content and have a purpose, and to know that I'm not swapping my life for money and some mind-numbing boring job, making easy money and protecting my brain.

If you make money, you might not make meaning.

I don't care if people know who I am or if I make a ton of money, I just love my work so much.

It's not all about money for me.

If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

I'm just looking for projects I enjoy.

Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.

A lot of money with the wrong career is not going to make you happy. If you have money without happiness, it doesn't mean anything. It's all about happiness.

Money will not make you happy. It's most important that you need to be happy. You need to do something you want to do.

Money and fame, it only makes you so happy. You gotta find other reasons to fight. I want a certain amount of money to do the things that I want to do.

I believe that when you do what you love, you find higher levels of satisfaction that can compensate for lower income.

We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.

I think about the work I've landed, and I think to myself, 'If I never land a job again, I could still die happy.'

The ultimate dream in life is to be able to do what you love and learn something from it.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.

I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

I'd tell any coach not to move for money... Stay at your job if you're really happy.

I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.

Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.

I think there's a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

I don't look at things goin', 'Oh, is this gonna make me rich? Is this gonna make me a star? Am I gonna win awards?' If all that stuff happens, great. Who cares? I still have to wake up in the morning and go to work and be happy to do it.

What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.