Quotes About Priorities

It is nice to be the most expensive Dutchman, and it is nice for my agent and for Ajax. But it does not matter to me whether I cost €5m or €150m or €200m. I just need to make sure that I do my own thing.

Sometimes we think that the more expensive brands will be more effective. Sometimes if you stick to the basics, that's what really matters. That's what I do anyway.

I'm not going to do anything that I don't think is very funny, even if it's a lot of money or massive exposure.

I am selfless only to an extent, I can't be a martyr, I have a daughter to raise.

I think to the extent you die with money in the bank, you've miscalculated.

There is no external means, whether it's my career, or money or house or a wife or anything, that is going to set me right.

People always ask me, 'Why did your wife take that extra job?' What they don't know is that four out of five days a week she's going to be home having dinner with us by five o'clock.

As a teenager you've got a lot of stuff going on all the time. It's hard to find a couple extra hours of sleep.

I wouldn't deliberately go and buy something that one would categorise as an extravagant thing.

You have to look yourself in the eye and ask, 'Who are you?' It can't be all about work.

Even now that I only have one eye, maybe I see more things than before. My life was completely against the clock, a fight against the stopwatch.

It was a precondition to leaving Facebook that I wasn't going to start something that was just about chasing money.

We must not become perpetually distracted from the great challenges facing our country and the world.

Money is important, but it's not the only driving factor for me.

I mean, there's a little bit that gets out, but for the most part, the thing that makes us work, and makes our family successful, and our life successful, is when we walk home and we walk into our doors of our house, all that other stuff is left outside. It's not a factor.

I have always believed in doing films which have strong scripts. Money is never the deciding factor for me and is not that important.

There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail!

I do worry that we're failing in a whole bunch of fundamental ways to distinguish for our kids between needs and wants. And we're failing to distinguish between production and consumption.

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.

I did what I felt that I wanted to do. Fairly selfishly. I didn't know my kids as well as I should have.

I run a business and go all over the world doing things for that business, things that are fairly orthogonal. But my job is to run my company, not to be the best Instagrammer. I'll let other people be awesome at it.

I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.

It's not always about the money and the fame, and a lot of people think that it is sometimes.

I don't even think about fame at all.