David Geffen

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

I’m not Sammy Glick. I’ve never killed anyone. I don’t have to. I’m too talented.

In Los Angeles, they don’t want you to fail, they want you to die.

I’m a great believer in anything that makes you 1 percent better. So I try everything. Freudian. Jungian. Est. Life Spring. Course in Miracles. Twelve Steps. I have pain from time to time. I have joy from time to time.

I just asked her to support me in this one thing. It’s not a big lie. She should have understood that I was just trying to sell the song to America’s premier songstress.

From the day I arrived, California seemed like an enchanted land.

Action may not bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

I love people who make me laugh.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

If you are not happy every morning when you get up, leave for work, or start to work at home, and are not enthusiastic about doing that, you will not be successful.

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

Happy is harder than money. Anyone who thinks money will make them happy, doesn’t have money.

Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

Don’t worry, be happy!

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.

You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than you do to consume wealth without producing it.

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

The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.

I’m always smiling and happy.