David Geffen

Starting a new studio was a thrilling challenge, but it was more stressful than fun. I never took a salary, a bonus or expenses. I learned never to do anything you’re not passionate about.

Steve Jobs didn’t give a shit about money, and I do give a shit about money. I wanted to have a lot of money. I thought it would change my life, which it did, but not in the ways I expected.

It’s not a very big thing to say, ‘I made a mistake’ on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can’t.

Before you talk to people in music or entertainment or video games, or even gun control, you need to talk to psychiatrists.

[As a child] I want to earn a thousand dollars a week, have an apartment on Ocean Parkway, and drive a Cadillac convertible.

I see my role as a baby doctor helping people deliver their babies. I felt the same way in the music industry.

But you know, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.

Happiness, wealth, and success are the byproducts of goal setting; they cannot be the goals themselves.

I think happiness is love.

Money itself won’t bring happiness, but it sure makes paying the bills easier.

A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don’t allow the happy moment, because they’re so busy trying to get a happy life.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Pursue whatever it is that you want to do with your life. It is the only secret to happiness that I know except for maybe true love, that and maybe having the amazing health insurance plan that our congressmen have.

It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.