Haruki Murakami Quotes

12 quotes from Haruki Murakami on investing and motivation.

On investing

• No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.

• When you're always scheming about ways to make money, it's like a part of you is lost.

• Money had no name, of course. And if it did have a name, it would no longer be money. What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.

On motivation

• Have your dream... What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand).

• But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got.

• A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea.

• I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky.

• The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter.

• Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

• It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.

• In dreams begins responsiblities.

• Passion can't sustain itselfforever.