Rei Kawakubo Quotes

PayPal is a strong business: it has a strong balance sheet and free cash flows, and it will help us take a look at where we want to independently invest.

Money doesn't drive me.

Financially I'm comfortable. But life has a lot more in store for me.

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

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.

When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.

I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.

Our one all-consuming ambition is to create wealth.

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.

I'm from Berkeley, so I don't really aspire to a lot of glitzy stuff. But things like having a home that I'm comfortable in or leasing a car that I'm comfortable in, basic everyday kind of stuff, I will splurge for that.

Commercial success certainly helps pay the bills.

I don't think it changes who you are inside. But when you have a lot of money, it makes a lot of things easier. That's why everyone wants to be successful.

Like every one, I too enjoy commercial success but for me it is certainly not the end of world.

I didn't come into the music business to make money. I came into it to be a success. Of course, if you're successful, you'll earn money and I was happy to receive it.

I'm grateful to be successful, and I'm grateful that we can make a living, and I hope we can maintain our integrity forever. That's really my only dream. The notion of bigness or smallness, I feel like that comes and goes in such waves that are kind of out of my control.

Money is something that keeps you alive and healthy and just keeps you focused. It's the drive. It's the passion.

I don't think that there's any shame at all in doing what you have to do in order to survive, to make money while you continue to pursue your dreams.

I'm not looking to get rich.

I would rather just be successful and have money than be famous.

That's your dream, to get paid and take care of your family. But you still want to win, too.

I don't want to be poor. I don't want to be rich to the extent that all I care about is keeping my job. I don't care enough about keeping my job right now. That's good. That makes effective at what I do. I don't want to be frightened of getting fired. So to that end I suppose my ambitions are that I spend less than I earn.