Marcel Wanders Quotes

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

I have far ascended beyond every ambition my 16-year-old self ever had.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

I want to do really good things with my life.

When people ask me, 'Are you happy?' I respond with, 'You've asked the wrong question.' There is a deep kind of satisfaction you get from building a company. This kind of satisfaction transcends happy, sad, hard, or easy. I seek satisfaction. I want to be positively disruptive.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.

Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.

There are 320 million American dreams. Go get yours.

I live every day the job that I dreamed of as a boy.

Winning isn't just about the material things you attain, it's about being your best in all you do.

Success is man's god.

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

It is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good parent.' That's all very well. But you must do something more.

Let's start anew. Life is goals - Purpose-Attempts - Struggle-Dreams and Accomplishmenties. It sounds confusing (my fault), but it's actually simple.

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

The only thrill worthwhile is the one that comes from making something out of yourself.

I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.

I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.