Shai Agassi Quotes

Jay and I used to talk about this: we never had a goal of making a lot of money. We had a goal of having a business of our own. And there were many times we could have sold out and had a lot of money. Billions. We just put it in our pocket and go home, OK? But that was never our goal.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.

I hope that I'll be hot for a long time so I can make a lot of money, I can retire early, and just travel. Hopefully that will happen.

'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.

Education is the first step on the ladder to economic empowerment.

Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.

I want to reach the status of becoming a mogul. And the only way you get there is by work.

If you happen to be in the right place at the right time, the capitalist system is a beautiful thing.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

I'm a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I'm doing. I don't want to work for other people forever.

For me, it's about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That's what's big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I'm in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

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.

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.

I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn't passionate about engineering. I was always set on having my own business, controlling my own destiny.

Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.

I'd made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again.

Opportunity today, prosperity tomorrow.

Nothing wrong with making money.

I don't think anybody ever started a great business because they wanted to make a little more cash. They had a dream. They wanted to better their life.

First of all, from a spiritual perspective, I don't think anyone needs to be apologetic about being successful or having money. The more successful you are, the more job opportunities you create for other people.

I'm just rich. I own businesses and I love it.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.