Dave East Quotes

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

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

I don't count no one else's money. I want everyone to be taken care of and be able to take care of their families and be successful.

Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

I've been able to help my family financially since making my first hit record. I bought my parents a house. My husband and I have a property in Portugal and one in Mumbles, Wales, and my family are always coming out to visit us. It has been fantastic to have such a successful career and to have been able to help everyone.

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.

At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.

I believe that God's dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don't mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you're planted. But I don't have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

While no amount of financial wealth can guarantee an experience of prosperity, it is possible to experience prosperity at almost any level of income, except when we are unable to meet our basic physical needs.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

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

I'm for economic independence.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

You see, we all want the same things. We want to be able to take care of our families, provide for our children, to have a roof over our heads and a good-paying job.

Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Life started getting good when I started making money.

Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.

While prosperity is in some ways related to money, it is not caused by money.

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.

Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.