Quotes About Purpose

I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.

It is important that global business leaders understand that they need to think beyond their quarterly balance sheets and see what it is that they are creating.

Undergrad, for me, in college was really about, you know, how do I become a professional. But business school, for me, was how do I become the person that I'm meant to be.

My dad wanted me to be a businessman, but I felt that wasn't for me.

I grew up the son of a businessman. And I didn't get into music to be a businessman.

I really love being busy because I am - feel like I am at my best when I am busy.

I like to be busy and I like to have places to go in the morning, when I get up.

I love working. If somebody took away my jobs, I don't know what I would do. I'm just the kind of person who has to stay busy.

If I can have a career based on playing roles that are a challenge and tell an important story, and for no alternative reason, then I have succeeded.

Succeeding in business is not just about making money.

But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.

I was born to be a basketball player, not to be a guy who succeeds inside Goldman Sachs.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

If I remain true to what's in my heart, that's all the success I need.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.

To achieve success wasn't to get into the major leagues or have the best season in the world. The best success is to live your life the way God wants you to.

Success is liking yourself and what you do because if you like yourself, you are happy with who you are and how you live and what you do.

The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.

The key to success is to find things that you have a passion for and would enjoy doing, even if you weren't getting paid to do it.

Success is knowing that your contribution is what helps the collective.

Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else.