Accumulating Quotes

Accumulating money has never been a real goal for me. Rather, I think about how to make every moment of my life mean something. What`s been my barometer for success is my creative and spiritual growth - I measure my success by the quality of my work. Last year I sat down and re-examined things. I asked myself if I wanted to do anything and everything just to get a lot of money. I decided I`d rather work and collaborate with people at the top of their craft. And my dream has come true. This year I`m doing a picture with four Academy Award winners: Director Robert Benton, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, and Paul Newman. - 1997.

I don`t believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs.

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don`t spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

I was trying to figure out what to do next, I`d been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.

There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they`re accumulating. They can`t escape that.

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.

"It`s silly to have as one`s sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth. I work because I enjoy what I`m doing, and the fact that I make money at it -- big money -- is a fine-and-dandy side fact. Money gives me just one big thing that`s really important, and that`s the freedom of not having to worry about money. I`m concerned about values -- moral, ethical, human values -- my own, other people`s, the country`s, the world`s values. Having money now gives me the freedom to worry about the things that really matter." - December 1967 Playboy interview