Quotes on Net Worth

All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.

You can never solve a financial problem with money. The only way for you to have a larger net worth is for you to go within to see why you are going without.

You must remember the value that you add to others and not just what others have added to you. That's how we build self-worth, which, in my opinion, is just as important as net worth.

At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both.

Not yet have I found any better method to prosper during the future financial chaos, which is likely to last many years, than to keep your net worth in shares of those corporations that have proven to have the widest profit margins and the most rapidly increasing profits. Earning power is likely to continue to be valuable, especially if diversified among many nations.

I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to define myself by my values.

Measure your net worth not by how much you have, but by many people you impact.

If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which you have to decide whether to become a slave to your net worth by devoting the rest of your life to increasing it or to let what you've accumulated begin to serve you.

Your net worth is not the same thing as your self-worth. Your value is not based on your valuables.

To double your net worth, double your self-worth. Because you will never exceed the height of your self-image.

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.