Pranav Mistry Quotes

I always wanted to have my own company. It was a psychological issue.

When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction.

Write that novel. Start that business you've always wanted to. The ultimate high of life is the commitment to pursuing something.

People who achieve the highest levels of success - whether in business or in raising families or simply in discovering fulfillment and satisfaction and purpose in life - are those who place their focus on other people rather than themselves.

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 wanted to win, always wanting to help my family, always thinking about making the best of myself.

I'm far more interested in being a successful entrepreneur than being famous.

I like my life. I like competing, but it's not just because of the money.

There can never be success without happiness, and no man can be happy without dispensing happiness to others.

In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.

Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.

There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . Inorder to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not inself-seeking but in self-forgetting.

It was never a goal of mine to become famous. So, I never projected any goals associated with that. But I did have a bunch of goals I wanted to achieve when I was financially able to do so, but they had nothing to do with fame. When I set goals, they're more tangible than becoming famous. You don't build a company or a foundation for fame.

Part of the American dream is 'I can own my own business, I can control my destiny. I can have the opportunity to work for myself.'

There's an inner desire, something inside of me, that's always wanted to be great and leave a mark.

I might win a championship. I might win two or three. I might not. The journey to get there is, for me, the most important.

I didn't have that when I invented MyPillow. I didn't have a safety net.

A life in pursuit of position or power is not a life well-lived or in service to others.

Jim Newman, the business visionary who created the term 'comfort zone,' showed me how to expand my horizons. Thanks to Jim, after I attended one of his PACE Seminars in 1978; I moved out of my comfort zone at Bear Stearns and became a super successful oilman.

I never do anything to make money. I do make money, but that's because I do something. Big difference.

I am not in competition with anybody; I just want to be productive.