Tony Dungy Quotes

If you make money, you might not make meaning.

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

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

I'm okay with not having a super-secure lifestyle because if you're doing what you like, you don't need stuff to fill any empty holes.

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.

Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it's the ability to give.

I'm just interested in carving out a meaningful life.

If I ask you, 'What do you want out of life?' and you say something like, 'I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like,' it's so ubiquitous that it doesn't even mean anything. Everyone wants that.

Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a good job. What is a good job? One that pays well. Oh. And that's it? All this suffering, merely so that we can earn a lot of money, which, even if we manage it, will not solve our problems anyway? It's a tragically limited idea of what life is all about.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

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.

It shouldn't just be about money. It should be about loving what you do.

It's not always about the money.

When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I'm just doing this for the money or I'm just going through the motions, I'll quit.

I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.

Business is not the aim of life; it's a game.

Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.

I think there's a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

I don't look at things goin', 'Oh, is this gonna make me rich? Is this gonna make me a star? Am I gonna win awards?' If all that stuff happens, great. Who cares? I still have to wake up in the morning and go to work and be happy to do it.

I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.

Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything.

I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.