Dave Eggers Quotes

It's a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips.

We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.

Money makes it easier to dream.

The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.

Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.

You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.

Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.

You never had it so good.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

I am fortunate enough to find opportunities that have a lot of presence.

I don't think it changes who you are inside. But when you have a lot of money, it makes a lot of things easier. That's why everyone wants to be successful.

I've got a chance to be really special.

Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us.

Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility.

You are not created for poverty.

Just because someone lives in a hut, that doesn't mean that isn't a good person, that that person can't do better, that person isn't capable of being great. And just because it's a hut - whatever that means - doesn't mean it's not a home.

I think I have got comfort, beautiful kids; I can do whatever I want, travel around the world... I know it's sounding very materialistic, but it's been a comfortable life.

You can turn your goals into gold.

Sleep is for those people who are broke.

There is ripe fruit over your head.

Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.

Don't settle for average. You were made for greatness.