Oprah Says: “Money Isn’t Everything!”

June 16, 2008

Let me just start this one with a take me higher lord! The Queen of Media, Oprah Winfrey, gave the commencement speech to 4,000 Stanford University graduates. During that speech she told them to remember that money isn’t everything.

“Money is pretty nice,” she continued. “I like money. It’s good for buying things. But having a lot of money does not automatically make one a successful person. What you want is money and meaning — you want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.”

I’ll tell you what, let’s test that theory and tomorrow she should deposit $50 million in my account. Thoughts?

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15 Responses to “Oprah Says: “Money Isn’t Everything!””

kk on June 16, 2008 at 11:03 am #

For if money isn’t everything, she can fill up my bank account. She’s only saying that cause she has billions. My broke ass can’t say that cause I saving money I don’t have.
kk on June 16, 2008 at 11:04 am #

For real…if money isn’t everything, she can fill up my bank account. She’s only saying that cause she has billions. My broke ass can’t say that cause I saving money I don’t have.
macguyver on June 16, 2008 at 11:54 am #

For those who are interested, it looks like Stanford posted a video of Oprah’s speech at http://www.youtube.com/stanford
Whitneysfan2002 (Kylan Jacobs) on June 16, 2008 at 12:33 pm #

Oprah is 100% correct. you can have it all & then what. most people cant handle this - and thats why the all mighty selects (select) few to have this opportunity. everybodies not rich for a reason…!
CC on June 16, 2008 at 12:45 pm #

just deposit $100 in mine!! lol
Khadijah on June 16, 2008 at 12:48 pm #

I hate hate HATE when rich people say some s**t like that! Of course it’s not everything to you when you have more of it than you’ll ever need!!
tanyetta on June 16, 2008 at 1:56 pm #

what khadijah said.
mrsFAB on June 16, 2008 at 3:21 pm #

what tanyetta said.
NurseFAB on June 16, 2008 at 3:49 pm #

what mrsFAB said.
licia on June 16, 2008 at 3:58 pm #

money isn’t everything, but having alot of it sure as hell makes things alot better. lmao
Southern Queen Dee on June 16, 2008 at 6:03 pm #

I agree with Oprah. You can have all the money in the world, but when you leave here, you can’t take it with you. You won’t be remembered for it. But, if you did something meaningful with it or to obtain it, that’s what will live on forever. Money comes and goes.
Ms.NeeCee on June 16, 2008 at 10:01 pm #

I so agree with all the “What so and so said”. If she didn’t have that money we wouldn’t even be replying to this post! HOLLA
Sell_ah_one on June 17, 2008 at 7:30 am #

Wow I guess Oprah was born rich, because the way some of you are typing sounds like hate to me. I agree with Oprah, money isn’t everything. As a matter of fact look it up:

1 Timothy 6:10, which states “For the LOVE of money is the ROOT of all EVIL. Some have been led astray from the faith in their GREED, and have pierced themselves through with many SORROWS.”

She appreciates her money but by no means does she love it. Damn come on y’all, “success is not the key to hapiness, hapiness is the key to success, if you love what you do you will be successful.”~Albert Schweitzer

Ok, I’m off my soap box. Love ya B. Keep doin’ what you’re doin’.
TheLoveJones on June 18, 2008 at 5:55 am #

As someone whose family works in the funeral home business, one of the biggest lessons I learned from my mother is that with money and material possessions, you cant take it with you so look it with a grain of salt. Oprah is right. I know other posters say yeah she is saying that because she is rich. But the reason why Oprah is rich is because she gives so much of fortune away, and it comes back to her tenfold.

We also have to look at people who have gained immense wealth, but in the end left this earth penniless and unhappy, now that is food for thought.
bux.to on June 18, 2008 at 6:20 am #

nice