Karl Malone Quotes

The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend 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.

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.

Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.

What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!

I never cared about money because I never needed money, you know what I mean? When I was 12 to 17 I never saw any of the money, so the money never motivated me.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it's not about the money.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

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.

I was making so much money I didn't care. I didn't know what to do with the money.

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

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

I am fortunate to have enough money not to have to worry about the necessities of life. Beyond that, I try to think about money as little as possible.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.

Instead of dumping all my money on an independent film that nobody would watch and most people would make fun of behind my back, I decided, 'I'm just going to buy a house.'

You cannot make money with a hockey team. You cannot make money with a hotel, either, and you cannot make money with a golf club. I have all three of them. When you have a certain amount of money, you do silly things - because it's pretty to have a golf course and it's interesting to have a hockey team.

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

One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.