Dean Kamen Quotes

I hope I'm saving lives. There are very few people in their careers that have the opportunity to do something to benefit mankind.

Focus on solving real problems and not on making money. There will be enough takers for your solutions. You will help make lives of some people better, and money will follow.

The goal isn't how much money you make, but how much you help people.

I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.

We want to show how technology can be applied to fix our problems. We need to celebrate not just success but to celebrate people who make a difference. It starts with people who do things for love, with no expectation of return. Some of that turns into enormous financial success, and then some of it goes back into doing it for love.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

When you're someone who cares about making a difference in the world, and you have resources to do that, you have literally hundreds of choices you could make about how to do that.

I go where the good work is being done.

What matters is how well we do in trying to make people's lives better. That's why I'm doing this. That's why I work the way that I work. And that's why I love what I'm doing so much.

I only want to be involved in projects that have a very good and important message.

I want to do good work in the world.

After my accident, the stuff that mattered was stuff that made a difference in the world, not the stuff that made money.

I want to help people and change the world.

I care about how many people's lives I've positively impacted. That's the unit of measurement I measure myself by.

I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.

I know my dad always wanted to heal the world, and so I think it would be great to follow in his footsteps.

I think most people want to be remembered with the causes they feel worthwhile and helped promote.

I look at life through product, and my goal is to impact people and make their lives better.

Before I leave this earth, I'm going to help people have a better future.

I think big! I choose to help thousands and thousands of people!

I'd love to help the entire world. Even to change the life of one child is amazing.

Being able to change the world and change hearts and minds - it's uplifting.

I really want to build something to make the world a better place.

I believe that I exist for the people. I'm just here to try to make a difference, and hopefully, the people listen and trust me enough to contribute.

Ever since I was young I understood the whole meaning of life isn't how much money you accumulate, how much fame you experience, it's how many lives you touch, how many faces you bring smiles to. I see myself back in Hawaii doing something in the community to improve the lives of young children. Everything I've done is to prepare myself to give back.