John Mackey Quotes

It's never been about making money.

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

People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

If you make money, you might not make meaning.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.

Of course, I do everything for money.

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

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

But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.

Money has never been a huge inspiration for me.

I didn't come into the music business to make money. I came into it to be a success. Of course, if you're successful, you'll earn money and I was happy to receive it.

Too many times I see kids come up to me, especially at the high school age, and say, 'Man, it would be cool to play in the NFL just because of the money.' And I'm like, 'Oh my goodness, you are missing everything, because money is not going to make you happy.'

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.

If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless.

Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.

So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.

I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

I'm not driven by the mighty dollar.

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

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