Money

“Like, today, token factories don't touch money that much. Money's been outside of AI, and we're on year four or five. It's funny, because money's supposed to be one of the first, most fungible things that should be playing the game, and it's not.”

“Cause just like money, Behavior compounds.”

“The rational reaction from employees will say, you know what? I don't want your equity. Give me more money.”

“When money's not a motivation, there's no reason to stop. Like, it used to be, oh, I'll earn enough too, and then I would say, oh, now I can take a break. Now, since money's not the goal, then I don't have any natural thing to stop me from doing the next thing…”

“People think entrepreneurs are obsessed with money. I would argue they're obsessed with control. And that if you're talented, and you're working on a valuable product, or a problem, and you solve the problem for other people, and you maintain control, you wind…”

“Money is a means of protecting people, not of having an awesome life”

“There is a nut for these large events like con lions and money, and even faster. And it's going to cost you 10 to fifteen million dollars, maybe even 20 to turn on the lights.”

“It's most obvious in the case of religion, but even if you look at something like the economy corporations, money, all of these things are stories that we invented. They did, they don't have an objective existence outside our imagination.”

“What I think is true. Is that on average, people who have more money tend to have fewer bad days, but I don't know if they have more better days.”

“You look at studies of history and you find in studies of history what brings about happiness and health past a certain amount of money. Of basic subsistence life. There's no correlation between the amount of money you have and the amount of healthy happiness …”

“Both money and happiness are They're like oxygen. When you don't have any, they solve everything, but when you have some, it solves nothing, right? So yeah, if you're broke, go get some money. Like, that's definitely gonna solve your problems, and if you're re…”

“Money is really an information system for labor allocation. Like, people think, some of us think money is power in and of itself, but it doesn't really, it's, if there's no labor to allocate, it's meaningless.”

“I think long term, I think money disappears as a concept, honestly. It's kind of strange, but in, in a future where anyone can have anything I think you no longer need money as a database for labor allocation. If there's, if AI and robotics are big enough to s…”

“So I think that probably We probably won't have money, and probably we'll just have energy, you know, power generation as the de facto currency.”

“It's an unbelievably powerful symbol because it has, it stores potentiality. So the mind can imagine anything. So it's the ultimate story in some sense outside of the greatest story ever told where both all your desires and fantasies can be fulfilled and all y…”

“Money is like alcohol or power. It is an amplifier. So if you have insecurities, oftentimes money will amplify those.”

“Step number one is realizing money solves money problems.”

“There's two ways to use money. One is as a tool to give yourself a better life. The other is as a yardstick of status to insert yourself on the social pecking order.”

“Then you realize like nothing really changes. I think someone told me this once, like the things that actually change is like where you lay your head down at night and then how you travel. That's kind of like all that changes. Money is great for freedom. That'…”

“If you're happy, more money will make you happier. If you're poor, more money is likely to make you happier. If you're not poor or you're not happy, more money is not going to do a thing.”

“Most people talk about their sexual intimacy more than they'll talk about their money situation.”

“I realized at some point you have to care about money because money is one of the best indicators of impact and allows you to do epic, cool things, but I don't intrinsically care about it.”

“There are ways to buy happiness. Now to begin with, more money early on, and there's a bunch of studies on this that shows that when you have more money, when you're poor, then you, your wellbeing does rise. And the reason is not because of happiness. It's bec…”

“So there's five things you can do with money. Okay. This is a very much a Cody Sanchez part of the conversation, isn't it? Number one, you can buy stuff, right? We've already talked about that. Number two, you can buy experiences. Number three, you can buy tim…”

“Money is not happiness. It's the second derivative of money that is happiness. It's not the absolute amount of money you have. It's the rate of acceleration.”

“A lot of people think, in my opinion, a lot of people that are not entrepreneurs think the main motivator for entrepreneurs is money, and I would argue it's control. It's control of what you work on, how you spend your time, who's around you.”

“Money is, is kind of the oxygen of independence. And if you can use your money to spend more time with your friends and family, you and I went out to a lovely dinner last night with each other. That cost money. Thank you for buying, by the way. And we had a gr…”

“Money that you are given, that you inherit, can be a burden to your ambition, a burden to your identity of building a name for yourself.”

“And it's this thing of just, like, if your expectations shift, then the littlest thing can make you upset. It's like, when you go to the quiet car, yes, it is quieter, but you also have this, like, sound debt that comes with it, you could say. This invisible s…”

“Like what can money do to make you happier? Because there's no other purpose. There's nothing else that you should even think about other than that.”

“The currency of your life, of the enterprise of your life, is love and happiness. That's what it is. And if you want to become rich in that, and that's really what matters, you better understand how it works. Furthermore, you can treat it with the same serious…”

“I certainly, by the way, think money is the best way we have to measure societal impacts. It's not perfect by any means but I, and I don't like it necessarily but I absolutely think that, ah, It is, it's not that the wrong, it's always the wrong people who are…”

“Spending all of your time doing stuff that you don't like because you think more money or more prestige down the road will be worth it only guarantees that you spend all of your time doing things that you don't like.”

“The biggest mistake is to relinquish your control. If you maintain the control, you'll get the money anyways.”

“So I'm, it's not the money that makes you happy, but it's just the kind of freedom it gives you.”

“Money doesn't buy you happiness. I can say I have a bunch of it now. I never had it, and I'm no happier or less happy than I was.”

“Money buys you something, money buys you convenience. It's really the only thing it buys and That's valuable. It's, it enables you to do things, to do less things you don't like to do.”

“Money is a way of moving wealth, and in practice, they are usually interchangeable, but they are not the same thing.”

“Like, I mean, people who say money can't buy happiness haven't tried. You can definitely make things nicer, and you can make life nicer, but I think it gets very hard to sustain that drive if it, if it's the only thing.”

“I have a saying, which is money is a cruel mistress, and if you don't pay attention to her, she'll leave you for somebody who does. And the only way, I think, to get that mistress of money to stay with you is that you have to pay attention to her.”

“Money is drastically underrated in this world today. The people who say that money doesn't matter are full of shit.”

“The sixth lesson is that the optimal time to extract enjoyment from your money is 26 to 35. And the reason 26 to 35 is the range is basically it's a point in your life where you've potentially been able to save up a little bit, but you're also still young enou…”

“That that's like the second order effect of having money is I think we all, everyone has challenges in their life. Everyone runs into problems. That's just life. But you can have obviously a life of a lot less stress when you don't have to worry about all thos…”

“Money in your personal life saves you hours. Money in your business saves you years.”

“And the thing about this is money runs out, but a moral premise doesn't.”

“All that money and fame do, Harry, is exposes who you actually are. It just accelerates your truth.”

“Money is a technology that humans use to communicate value with one another. It's just a technology.”

“The venture capitalists need you know maybe a lot more than sometimes you need them because the end of the day, you know, we kind of giving away one of the most commodity of products, which is money.”

“And I think the best use of money is growth, both for the company and personally. I have no issue spending money to go to a trip to meet someone that I'm going to learn a ton from, right? Like, I have no issue hiring someone to teach me something that I'm very…”

“There's two commodities in life. You have money and you have time. And I had a wise entrepreneur a long time ago say, you can't have both. You have one. You're either long one and short the other or short one and long the other.”

“The technology very generally will become a regulated industry in the same way that money is a regulated industry or media or indeed cars are a regulated industry.”

“Money I believe is the easiest thing in the world to make, and it's one thing that Will never truly make you happy. But actually more money is more complications in life.”

“What we're doing is we're basically saying, look, money has always been like a frozen block of time, right? I go do a bunch of work, I put in time, I get money. I go give that money to a restaurant, I say, hey, thaw this frozen block of time out, and you go wo…”

“Venture funded companies fail or shut down when they run out of money, but bootstrap companies shut down when they run out of motivation.”

“Money never bought happiness. Even early on, you find that people actually have a higher affect balance. They feel better about their lives when they go from poor to not poor. It's absolutely true, but it's not because they're getting happier. This sounds like…”

“Money is a token that you get from society to do Something positive with it, whether it's in business or whether it's in your personal life. It's really a social token that you're given.”

“Time doesn't operate like money. Time is a unit of object whose value can range from the negative to the positive, like, huge values.”

“I approach time as something like it's finite. I don't get more of it. And what I value is optionality. So I will always Try to spend money to create time versus spending time to create money in that sense.”

“I mean, for businesses, you pretty much, it all comes down to the same tool, which is money. So if you're not spending money on it, you're not serious about it.”

“I think that money accelerates the point at which you can declare yourself free and feel emancipated. Like I do think that money is a, it liberates people. It gives them freedom, but going back to what we were saying before, it doesn't make you happier. And if…”