Its senseless to have making money as your goal as money has no intrinsic valueits value comes from what it can buy, and it cant buy everything. Its smarter to start with what you really want, which are your real goals, and then work back to what you need to attain them. Money will be one of the things you need, but its not the only one and certainly not the most important one once you get past having the amount you need to get what you really want.

Principles by Ray Dalio