Money & Happiness
The page contains money quotes related to happiness and money from famous people like Benjamin Franklin and Warren Buffett
- Many quotes emphasize the importance of saving money and investing to be happy and financially secure
- Some quotes say that money cannot directly buy happiness but it can help avoid misery or allow for nicer experiences
- Having too much focus on acquiring wealth or money could take away from true happiness
- Living frugally and spending money on necessities rather than luxuries may lead to greater happiness according to some quotes
- Inner peace and virtue are highlighted by some as leading to happiness more than external factors like money or possessions
This page contains a collection of money quotes related to happiness. Some of the quotes are from famous people like Benjamin Franklin, Warren Buffett, and William Shakespeare. The quotes emphasize the importance of saving money, investing, and being mindful of one’s spending habits to be happy. Some of the quotes also touch on the idea that saving money can bring happiness and financial security.
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“Money can’t buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it” — David Lee Roth
“Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery” — Daniel Kahneman
“I don’t think anybody should think their life is incomplete if they don’t follow some dream. Happiness doesn’t come from achievements, or money, or any sort of treasure. Happiness is a frame of mind, not a destination” — Janette Rallison
“It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness” — Thomas Jefferson
“It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life are as miserable most days as anybody else, despite the fact that it must be obvious they would be – given that we are all agreed that money and fame do not bring happiness” — Stephen Fry
“Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness” — Richard Bach
“Money can’t buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories” — Ronald Reagan
“Money can’t buy happiness” — Howard Hughes
“Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather” — Alexandre Dumas
“When I was growing up, I don’t remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit” — Martin Scorsese
“There are things money can’t buy and hard work can’t win. One of them is happiness” — Ray Kroc
“Happiness is a true wealth, which no money can buy” — Alon Calinao Dy
“Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money” — Neil Simon
“Money doesn’t make people happy. People make people happy” — Steve Wynn
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of” — Jane Austen
“Making money is a happiness. And that’s a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness” — Muhammad Yunus
“Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness” — Henrik Ibsen
“Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable” — Clare Boothe Luce
“This is an embarrassment of riches, and boy, am I happy to be embarrassed” — Julia Louis-Dreyfus
“All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it’s happened I guess I’m just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy” — John Dillinger
You may have a lot of money tied up in your savings, but if you neglected to save up happiness, then your money is worthless – Kora-Lea Vidal
“Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don’t necessarily know how to obtain happiness” — Gregg Easterbrook
“They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?” — Princess Diana
“I don’t have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I’m not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I’m happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I’d like everyone else to be happy too” — Anne Frank
People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you’re going to lose. You’re just going to. Even if you get the money, you’re not going to be happy — Gary Vaynerchuk
“I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve” — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Jane Austen –Money can only give Happiness when there is Nothing Else to give it
“Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone’s happy” — David Stern
“Earn Nicely, spend wisely and you will live happily” — Auliq Ice
“Getting more money, having more hits, being the lead in the movie — those things might stimulate you, but they don’t make you happy. I’ve experienced it all already, and I’m telling you firsthand, it doesn’t” — Miley Cyrus
“Getting rich is life’s biggest booby trap. It comes down to what would you rather be, happy or rich? I say do what’s gonna make you happy” — Jim Koch
“As far as I’m concerned, eighteen holes of golf is the only happiness that money can buy” — Momofuku Ando
“Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end”
– Bob Marley
“That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings” — John Ruskin
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“Many solutions were suggested for this problem [unhappiness], but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy” — Douglas Adams
“Money belongs to life, and it wants to be spent and passed on in the service of life. Money is happy to be spent. All the richer will it return to us” — Bert Hellinger
“Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy” — Eddie Barclay
“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other” – Burton Hills
“It all depends on what you want to do and how you want to grow, but if you think money is going to make you happy you are completely, completely confused. If you do it for the money, you are already screwed” — PitBull
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience” — Ludwig van Beethoven
“Money won’t make you happy … but everybody wants to find out for themselves” — Zig Ziglar
“It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy, it’s only necessary to be rich” – Alan Alda
“Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million” — Arnold Schwarzenegger
“People say money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you had enough money, you can have a key made” — Joan Rivers
“Don’t work for money. work for happiness, work for peace, work for contentedness, work for your passion & money will work for you!” — Arvind Venkat
“Money may not buy happiness, but I’d rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus” – Francoise Sagan
“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one” – Benjamin Franklin
“I try to share with other people that the ultimate source of happiness is within us; it’s not found in money and fame. I promote fundamental human values on the basis of scientific findings and common sense. Evidence that basic human nature is compassionate is a source of hope” — Dalai Lama
“Everyone wants to lead a peaceful, happy life, but happiness and success aren’t measured by how much money you have, but by whether you have inner peace in your heart” — Dalai Lama
“If frugality were established in the state, if our expenses were laid out rather in the necessaries than the superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness” – Oliver Goldsmith
“No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism” — Clement R. Attlee
“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it” — George Bernard Shaw
“I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure, born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld; or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give” — Charlotte Bronte
“Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use” — Samuel Johnson
“I’m very happy about the money, and I’m very happy about my health. I’m not happy about the isolation” — Markus Persson
“Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money” — Arthur Schopenhauer
“Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort” – Helen Gurley Brown
“Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others” – Denis Waitley
“What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money” – Henny Youngman
“Money doesn’t matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn’t make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don’t have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level” — Winona Ryder
“It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed” – Kin Hubbard
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery” — Charles Dickens in David Copperfield
“Wanting is the root of all… uh, needing, stuff. I’ll tell ya what… They say money can’t buy happiness but it sure as hell buys everything else” — Bob Truman
“Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn’t got money” — David Geffen
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