George Lucas Net Worth and Key Habits

George Lucas was born in May of 1944 in California. He is a famous filmmaker, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. His net worth is estimated to be $6.4 billion.

When George started college, he began to study and love film making. Those were the times when Canyon cinema was predominant. Lucas tried to understand the classic European film era.

Lucas teamed up with people of the same mindset, who also appreciated films and the media industry. Through all off these collaborations, Lucas met Steven Spielberg and that led to the Indiana Jones Franchise.

George established his own production house named 'Lucasfilms. Lucas ruled the decade with his masterpiece Star Wars. His movie set a box office record for that time. From film making to entrepreneur, Lucas shifted his interest to things like toys and other ways to make money off of his movies. 

The Star Wars brand eventually sold to Disney for $4.05 Billion.

“Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.” – George Lucas

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.” – George Lucas

“I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.” – George Lucas

“The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side. .” –George Lucas

“Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.” – George Lucas

If you really love films, and you really want to get the full impact, there's a huge difference between watching something on a small screen with a mediocre sound system and watching it on a giant screen in a giant theater with a huge beautiful sound system. I mean, the difference is electric.  - George Lucas 

Lucas believes that anything worthy of your efforts will eventually face hard times. The things that come out on top only do so because someone was very persistent. He had times where he felt hopeless with his movies, but he kept going until he came up with Star Wars. All the success can be yours if you're willing to Endure and keep fighting. 

Success is hardest to attain when it feels like there is not a clear path. Being a doctor has a very clear path but making Hollywood movies does not. You have to be willing to keep moving forward when you only have enough light to see the next step in front of you. 

George believes in having attainable and realistic goals. When goals are too grand it can sometimes lead to procrastination because one does not know where to start. Procrastination is a huge negative that never leads you anywhere. It's necessary to set and work on realistic goals.

Anyone can set outlandish goals. You need to set goals that push you but don't feel unattainable either because they will drive you to take action. When you can see your self moving closer to the target it will keep pushing you harder the closer you get.