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1. PLAYfor a
LIVING70 Fun Quotes from Successful People
on How to Find Happiness,
Live Rich, and Change the World
CHARLIE HOEHN

2. PLAY AT YOUR
WORK

3. “The work that is really a
man’s own work is play and
not work at all… When we
talk about the great workers
of the world, we really mean
the great players of the
world.”
MARK TWAIN
Classic American author. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and many others. Often
called the greatest American humorist of his age.

4. “I never did a day’s work in
my life. It was all fun.”
THOMAS EDISONOne of the most prolific inventors of all time, with over 1,000 U.S.
patents to his name. Invented many culturally significant devices,
including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the first
commercial light bulb. Created the world’s first industrial research
laboratory.

5. “Play is the highest form of
research.”
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Most influential physicist of the 20th century. Developed the
general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern
physics (along with quantum mechanics). Won the Nobel Prize
in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.

6. “The only way to do great
work is to love what you
do.”
STEVE JOBSCo-founder and CEO of Apple. Co-founder and chief
executive of Pixar. Pioneer and revolutionary in the music,
animation, film, mobile, and personal computing industries.
Led development of the iPhone, the iPod, the iPad, and the
Macintosh. Net worth: $10 billion. Annual salary: $1
(2003-2011).

7. “I just write what I wanted
to write. I write what
amuses me. It’s totally for
myself.”
J.K. ROWLINGAuthor of Harry Potter, the bestselling book series of all-
time. Her works have sold more than 400 million copies,
and are available in 200 countries in over 60 languages.
Helped start a new wave of interest in reading. Net worth:
$1 billion.

8. “The most honest form of
filmmaking is to make a film
for yourself.”
PETER JACKSON
Directed The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit trilogy,
King Kong, Heavenly Creatures, and The Lovely Bones.
Net worth: $400 million

9. “When I’m making a film,
I’m the audience.”
MARTIN SCORSESEAmerican film director, producer, screenwriter, and film
historian. Widely regarded as one of the greatest directors
of all-time. Directed Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull,
Casino, Mean Streets, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The
Departed, Boardwalk Empire, and many others. Net worth:
$70 million.

10. “This is the real secret of life:
to be completely engaged
with what you are doing in
the here and now. And
instead of calling it work,
realize it is play.”
ALAN WATTS
Bio TK

11. “I found child’s play was the
stuff I liked to do, so I still do
it as an adult.”
MATT GROENING
Creator of The Simpsons (longest running animated
television show in history) and Futurama. Net worth: $500
million.

12. “I loved to make people
laugh in high school, and
then I found I loved being on
stage in front of people.”
STEVE MARTINAmerican comedian, actor, writer, musician, and producer
| Won the Lifetime Achievement award in comedy |
Starred in The Jerk, The Pink Panther, and many others |
Net worth: $110 million

13. “Most good programmers
do programming not
because they expect to get
paid or get adulation by the
public, but because it is fun.”
LINUS TORVALDS
Bio TK

14. “Without work, all life goes
rotten, but when work is
soulless, life stifles and dies.”
ALBERT CAMUS
Bio TK

15. “ I d re a m f o r a
living.”
STEVEN SPIELBERG
Most influential and popular American director of our time
| Directed E.T., Indiana Jones, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Catch
Me If You Can, Saving Private Ryan, and many others |
Co-Founder of DreamWorks Studio | Net worth: $3.2
billion

16. “Once we realize that the
boundaries between work and
play are artificial, we can take
matters in hand and begin the
difficult task of making life more
livable.”
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI
Bio TK

17. PLAY TO
GET RICH

18. “Take the job you would take
if you were independently
wealthy. You’re going to do
well at it.”
WARREN BUFFETT
CEO of Berkshire Hathaway | One of the most successful
investors of the last century | Wealthiest person in the
world in 2008 | Pledged 80% of his income to charities |
Net worth: $60 billion

19. “Ever since I stopped
worrying about finances,
I’ve made more money than
I ever thought I’d make in
my life.”
BRYAN CRANSTONAmerican actor, best known for his portrayal of Walter
White on the hit series Breaking Bad | Won three
consecutive Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Dramatic
Actor | One of the most respected actors in Hollywood |
Net worth: $30 million

20. “I don’t do anything for the
money.”
RICKY GERVAISCo-creator, director, and star of the original U.K. version of
the hit television series The Office | Author of Flanimals, a
best-selling series of children’s novels | Consistently ranked
among the best stand-up comedians in the world | Net
worth: $80 million

21. “I don’t care about
money.”
LADY GAGA
One of the highest grossing musicians and performers of
all-time | Sold 23 million albums and 64 million singles |
Net worth: $190 million

22. “If we were motivated by
money we would have sold
the company a long time
ago.”
LARRY PAGE
Co-founder of Google | Inventor of PageRank, the
foundation of Google's search ranking algorithm | Net
worth: $20 billion | Annual salary: $1

23. “I had no idea that being
your authentic self could
make me as rich as I’ve
become.”
OPRAH WINFREYAmerican talk show host, producer, and philanthropist |
One of the most influential women in the United States |
Host of the highest rated talk show in history | Donated
more than $400 million to educational causes | Net
worth: $2.8 billion

24. “I don't know how much
value I have in this universe,
but I do know that I've made
a few people happier than
they would have been
without me, and as long as I
know that, I'm as rich as I
ever need to be.”
ROBIN WILLIAMS
Bio TK

25. “A man is a success if he
gets up in the morning and
goes to bed at night and in
between does what he
wants.”
BOB DYLANOne of the greatest song writers of all-time, hailed as “the
Shakespeare of his generation” | Wrote more than 500
songs and sold tens of millions of albums | Net worth: $80
million

26. “People rarely succeed
unless they have fun in
what they are doing.”
DALE CARNEGIE
Bio TK

27. “I realized the more fun I
had, the better I did.”
BILL MURRAY
Bio TK

28. “I think that success is
having fun.”
BRUNO MARS
Bio TK

29. “ F u n i s
good.”
DR. SEUSS
Bio TK

30. “Never, ever underestimate
the importance of having
fun.”
RANDY PAUSCH
Bio TK

31. “Flying might not be all plain
sailing, but the fun of it is
worth the price.”
AMELIA EARHART
Bio TK

32. “I only do this because I'm
having fun.”
HEATH LEDGER
Bio TK

33. “As a rock star, I have two
instincts: I want to have fun,
and I want to change the
world.”
BONO
Bio TK

34. “When you have
confidence, you can have a
lot of fun. And when you
have fun, you can do
amazing things.”
JOE NAMATH
Bio TK

35. “You gotta have fun.
Regardless of how you look
at it, we're playing a game.
It's a business, it's our job,
but I don't think you can do
well unless you're having
fun.”
DEREK JETER
Bio TK

36. “Just play. Have fun.
Enjoy the game.”
MICHAEL JORDAN
Widely recognized as the greatest basketball player of all-
time | Led the Chicago Bulls to six national championships
| NBA’s Most Valuable Player five times | Net worth:
$650 million

37. PLAY FOR YOUR
HAPPINESS

38. “In every real
man a child is
hidden that wants
to play.”
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
German philosopher, classical scholar, and cultural critic |
One of the most influential thinkers of all-time | Wrote
many classics of philosophy, such as Beyond Good and
Evil and Thus Spoke Zarathustra

39. “My general attitude to life is
to enjoy every minute of every
day.”
RICHARD BRANSON
Launched Virgin Records, Virgin Mobile, and Virgin
Atlantic Airways | Founder of Virgin Group, which
consists of more than 400 companies | Net worth: $4.6
billion

40. “It is a happy talent to know
how to play.”
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Bio TK

41. “My life has no purpose, no
direction, no aim, no
meaning, and yet I’m happy. I
can’t figure it out. What am I
doing right?”
CHARLES SCHULZ
Creator of Peanuts, the most popular and influential comic
strip in history | Peanuts ran for 50 years with 17,897
strips published, making it “arguably the longest story ever
told by one human being” | Net worth: $35 million

42. “Every child is an artist. The
problem is how to remain an
artist once he grows up.”
PICASSO
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage
designer | One of the most influential and celebrated
artists of the 20th century | Net worth: $50 million

43. “When you work with people
whom you like and you
admire because they’re so
good at what they do, it
doesn’t feel like work. It’s like
you’re playing.”
STAN LEECreated Spiderman, X-Men, The Avengers, The Incredible
Hulk, The Fantastic Four, and other popular franchises |
Helped Marvel Comics grow from a small division of a
publishing house to a large multimedia corporation | Net
worth: $200 million

44. “The greatest thing about
being a comedian is knowing
other comedians. And you
get to talk to them. It’s the
most fun.”
JERRY SEINFELD
Creator, writer, and star of the hit series Seinfeld, called
the best television program of all-time by TV Guide |
Ranked the 12th greatest comedian of all-time by
Comedy Central | Net worth: $800 million

45. “This generation is the least
racist generation ever.
Everywhere you go, people
are listening to hip-hop and
partying together.”
JAY-Z
Widely regarded as one of the greatest rappers and
artists of all-time | Sold approximately 50 million albums
worldwide | Holds the record for most number one albums
by a solo artist (13) | Net worth: $500 million

46. “A little nonsense now and
then, is cherished by the
wisest men.”
ROALD DAHL
Bio TK

47. “All work and no play
makes Jack a dull
boy.”
THOMAS HOWELL
Bio TK

48. “My focus is to forget the
pain of life. Forget the pain,
mock the pain, reduce it. And
laugh.”
JIM CARREY
Bio TK

49. PLAY TO CHANGE THE
WORLD

50. “The debt we owe to the
play of imagination is
incalculable.”
CARL JUNG
Swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology |
Best known for his theories of collective unconscious, and
the use of synchronicity in psychotherapy | Named and
described the traits now identified by the Myers-Briggs test

51. “The Beatles saved the
world from boredom.”
GEORGE HARRISONLead guitarist for The Beatles, often regarded as the
greatest band of all-time | Wrote some of the band’s most
well-known songs, including Here Comes The Sun, While
My Guitar Gently Weeps, and Something | Continued on
as a hit songwriter and solo performer | Net worth: $400
million

52. “We believed in our
idea: a family park
where parents and
children could have fun,
together.”
WALT DISNEYCreator of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and other
influential characters | Planned and built Disneyland |
Founder of Disney Company, one of the largest
entertainment conglomerates in the world | Net worth: $5
billion

53. “I do what I do because of
Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey
Mouse. I never forgot how
their films entertained me.”
JOHN LASSETER
Bio TK

54. “Humanity has advanced,
when it has advanced, not
because it has been sober,
responsible, and cautious,
but because it has been
playful, rebellious, and
immature.”
TOM ROBBINS
Bio TK

55. “Combinatory play seems to
be the essential feature in
productive thought.”
ALBERT EINSTEINMost influential physicist of the 20th century | Developed
the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of
modern physics (along with quantum mechanics) | Won
the Nobel Prize in 1921 for his explanation of the
photoelectric effect

56. “I learned how important it
is to entertain people and
give them a reason to come
and watch you play.”
ELVIS PRESLEY
One of the most culturally significant icons of the 20th
century | Widely known as “The King of Rock and Roll”
and a sex symbol of his time | Net worth: $300 million

57. “I always try to create new
experiences that are fun to
play.”
SHIGERU MIYAMOTO
Most influential and famous game designer in the world |
Creator of Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda,
Donkey Kong, Star Fox, Wii Sports, and other hugely
successful franchises | Called “The Father of Modern
Video Gaming” | Net worth: $40 million

58. “When the kids are
laughing, I tear up. I’m so
happy I did a nice thing.”
ADAM SANDLER
One of the most beloved actors on the planet | Starred in
Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy, Big Daddy,
The Wedding Singer, and many others | His films have
grossed over $2 billion at the box office | Net worth:
$300 million

59. “Play is the highest form of
human activity.”
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
German philosopher, classical scholar, and cultural critic |
One of the most influential thinkers of all-time | Wrote
many classics of philosophy, such as Beyond Good and
Evil and Thus Spoke Zarathustra

60. PLAY TO
LIVE WELL

61. “If you knew that your life was
merely a phase or short, short
segment of your entire existence,
how would you live? Knowing
nothing 'real' was at risk, what
would you do? You'd live a
gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life.
You know you would. That's
what the ghosts want us to do —
all the exciting things they no
longer can.”
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Bio TK

62. “Life well spent is
long.”
LEONARDO DA VINCIItalian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, inventor,
musician, and more | One of the most diversely talented
people ever to have lived | Painted The Mona Lisa, The
Last Supper, and many of the most famous works of all-
time

63. “Men do not quit playing
because they grow old; they
grow old because they quit
playing.”
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR.
Bio TK

64. “Some doctor told me I had
six months to live and I
went to their funeral.”
KEITH RICHARDS
British guitarist for The Rolling Stones, a band that has sold
over 200 million records in a career spanning 50 years |
One of the greatest guitar players of all-time | Inspiration
for Johnny Depp’s portrayal of Jack Sparrow in Pirates of
the Caribbean | Net worth: $280 million

65. “My motto is
more good
times.”
JACK NICHOLSONAmerican actor, film director, and writer | Starred in The
Shining, Chinatown, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest,
Batman, A Few Good Men, The Departed, and many
more | One of the youngest actors to win the American
Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award | Net worth: $400
million

66. “I never lose sight of the fact
that just being is fun.”
KATHARINE HEPBURN
Bio TK

67. “As it is with a play, so it is
with life. What matters is not
how long the acting lasts,
but how good it is.”
SENECA
Roman stoic philosopher, whose work has been widely
studied for the last 2,000 years | Wrote Letters From a
Stoic, considered one of the greatest books on how to live
well | Tutor and advisor to Emperor Nero

68. “A master in the art of living draws
no sharp distinction between his work
and his play; his labor and his
leisure; his mind and his body; his
education and his recreation. He
hardly knows which is which. He
simply pursues his vision of
excellence through whatever he is
doing, and leaves others to
determine whether he is working or
playing. To himself, he always
appears to be doing both.”
FRANçOIS-RENé
DE CHATEAUBRIAND
Bio TK

69. “I was early taught to work
as well as play. My life has
been one long, happy
holiday; Full of work and full
of play — I dropped the
worry on the way — and
God was good to me every
day.”
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER
Bio TK

70. “It's the game of
life… I gotta have as
much fun and go
around the board as
many times as I can
before it's my turn to
leave.”
TUPAC SHAKUR
Bio TK

71. “The true object of all human
life is play. Earth is a task
garden; heaven is a
playground.”
GILBERT CHESTERSON
English writer, historian, novelist, Catholic theologian,
apologist, mystery writer, literary and social critic | Wrote
80 books and over 4,000 essays | Known for his priest-
detective story Father Brown, and his rational arguments
for Christianity | Called “a man of colossal genius” by
Time Magazine

72. “Some people have been on the
ride for a long time, and they
begin to question, ‘Is this real,
or is this just a ride?’ And other
people have remembered, and
they come back to us and they
say, ‘Hey, don’t worry; don’t be
afraid, ever, because this is just
a ride.’”
BILL HICKS
Controversial American stand-up comedian and musician |
Ranked the 4th greatest comedian of all-time by the UK’s
Channel 4

73. “Choose love instead of
fear. If you do, a wonderful
life adventure awaits you.”
JOHN MACKEY
Founder of Whole Foods | One of the most influential
advocates for organic food | Co-author of Conscious
Capitalism and Be The Solution

74. “Life’s like a movie, write
your own ending. Keep
believing, keep pretending.”
JIM HENSON
American puppeteer, film director, inventor | Created
iconic characters like Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Big Bird,
and the Cookie Monster | Producer of The Muppet Show,
which gained an international audience in 100 countries,
and was followed by a slew of movies

75. “Man is God’s plaything, and
that is the best part of him.
Therefore every man and
woman should live life
accordingly, and play the
noblest games…What, then, is
the right way of living? Life
must be lived as play.”
PLATO
Athenian philosopher, student of Socrates, and tutor to
Aristotle | One of the founders of western science and
philosophy | Wrote some of the most important works of
philosophy, including The Republic and The Apology of
Socrates | Created the first university in the western world