Dan Buettner Quotes

God didn't make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God... If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

I'm not so in love with material things that I'll do anything for money. That allows me the luxury of doing things of value.

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.

I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

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.

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

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.

I once told Tommy Smothers, 'If I could just get the money and the women straightened out, the rest of my life would be easy.'

If you make money, you might not make meaning.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.

I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?'

Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction.

Money and good life had never been my goal.

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.

Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.

Anytime I have communicated with college-going people, fresh out of college, looking for a job - money is very important, that is just so important. What is not important is how do you plan to live your life or the larger picture. Not that I had such philosophical intentions when I was 18, but I think there was lesser importance for money.

It's not about the money for me.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Everybody has a purpose.

If I lose touch with that... the reason why I act... then I'll leave it all. I don't do it for fame or money.

When I left Facebook, I left an enormous amount of equity on the table. I thought, 'I don't want to be a slave to money. I want to be a slave to something bigger: an ambition, a goal.'

That's the secret to happiness. Find something you can make money at that you really love 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.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.