Howard Schultz Quotes

I will be Shawn Kemp regardless of whether I have money or not. The only thing money does is show who you are.

I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am.

I like money, but it's never been about the money.

Success has affected my self-definition in that I have more money. Writers pooh-pooh that idea, but it's a huge deal.

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

I'm not driven by the mighty dollar.

It's honestly true that money means nothing to me.

When you make a lot of money, it just means you made a lot of money. It doesn't make you a better person.

If I have a roof over my head and if I'm cashing checks and choking some necks I'm always happy.

I have made more money than I ever thought anybody should ever make. But who cares if you're worth $500 million or $1 billion? That is not what I want to be remembered for, but for giving something back.

I like making money, but it's a scorecard. I'm not driven by that.

Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure.

Money is sensual.

Money doesn't drive me.

I've made millions of dollars with the body I have, so where's the pain in that?

I'm someone who'd never base how happy I am on how much money I have, or how good a restaurant is because of how posh it is.

I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.

If nothing else, I have money.

When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with 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.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

I'm worth far too much money. I don't need anybody's money.

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

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.