Wale Quotes

Money to me is not a factor in my life.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

If I make $30,000 a month, I'll spend $29,999. I tell friends, 'Oh, you need money to go to college?' I'm a little crazy, but the backwash is heaven.

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.

I never set money as a goal. It was a result.

People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.

I never thought of myself as a wealthy person. I've thought of myself as a person who has had a lot of luck. I don't have the same stress that other people have, but there are too many things I could have done differently if wealth was what I was after. If I was all about money, I would have lived in L.A.

Money is important. It is an important resource to have to help us build the life we want, but we overvalue it.

We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.

I'm not chasing money, so I'm not looking at just trying to stretch out a deal artificially just to have a certain number.

I'm not driven by the mighty dollar.

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.

For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.

A lot of people, most people who are working, they do it for money. And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. It so happens that I made a lot of money already, so I don't have to worry that much about it. I wouldn't fault anybody for doing it for the money, but it doesn't interest me right now.

When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.

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

It's nice to be financially secure. Apart from that, I really don't care too much about money.

I don't care about money.