Money Won't Make You Happy Quotes

#1. Money won't make you happy ... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Zig Ziglar

#2. People who grow rich almost always improve their sex life. More people want to have sex with them. That's just the way human beings work. Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac. Money did not make me happy. But it definitely improved my sex life.

Felix Dennis

#3. You've got to be happy, you have to do this thing [music] for the love. It's not like you go into music because it's going to make a lot of money. It's something you do ... that's the thing. You got to accept all that hard work with it, too. And enjoy it, and love it.

Creed Bratton

#4. When you realise that money doesn't actually make you happy, it's a quick fix to have things you've always wanted, but then when you have it, you realise that's not what actually makes you happy. It's more about having a great marriage and happy children; that's what life's all about.

Shane Filan

#5. Ben West points out that even from a selfish perspective, earning to give allows you to have things that people believe make them happy, like money and a high-status job, while still getting the fulfillment that comes from knowing you are helping to make the world a better place.

Peter Singer

#6. The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.

Charles Handy

#7. There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail!

Joan Chen

#8. What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it.

Kevin Costner

#9. You were never born to make money. You were born to enjoy life and be happy. Instead you learned to make money and forgot how to be happy.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money.

Groucho Marx

#11. Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

Rebecca Ferguson

#12. I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

Coretta Scott King

#13. Money is an important tool for modern life. Money will not make you happy, but you can use money wisely to enhance your happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#14. I'm a wealthy man now. I've got a flat, a car, I have enough money to buy food. I skate to make the people happy. If somebody skates to earn money, I don't care. I skate for the people. Besides, it's pleasant to supply Russia with gold medals.

Evgeni Plushenko

#15. Money doesn't make you happy, but it gives a zone of comfort around you.

Maeve Binchy

#16. I'm not trying to be the highest-paid receiver in the National Football League. I've never received that, and that's not ever going to happen. So I'm fine with what I have, I make good money, and I'm happy about it.

Donald Driver

#17. Everybody says they want to be happy, but very few people know what will really make them happy. Some people say they want money, but money is just printed paper. Some say they want to travel, but you can only travel so much and then you have to come home." He

Willee Amsden

#18. Most people want to make maximum money for minimum work, and that does not result in a happy life. Work does not become an active force to advance your awareness into higher states.

Frederick Lenz

#19. New Mexico is 2-to-1 Democrat. I got elected as a Republican. I think I did a great job of showing people that government doesn't have to spend money to make you happy, that government really needs to be providing a level playing field.

Gary Johnson

#20. Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#21. How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.

John D. Rockefeller

#22. Money per se does not make you happy - it's what it enables you to do with your life.

Lois P Frankel

#23. you always have to keep things fun. if you don't, no matter how many awards you win or how much money you make, you will never be happy.

Scott Hamilton

#24. Money and success can never make you happy if your heart is closed.

Lucinda Riley

#25. Money buys you nice things but it doesn't make you happy.

Amy Childs

#26. Men just didn't seem to 'take'. It was like a perm gone bad. You paid all that money because you thought what you are doing would make you happy, and then the hairstylist fucked it up and you had to live with it until it went away.

Raven Willow-Wood

#27. Unfortunately, money make us happy - look around then say your opinion!

Deyth Banger

#28. If I make money, I'm happy. Even if I lose money, I'm happy.

Lui Che Woo

#29. There's three things I've seen in this world that seem to make a body happy or miserable. It's no money or health or any of those other things most people talk about. It's knowing where you fit in this world, being able to go after your dreams, and love.

Patricia McLinn

#30. Unhappy poor people at least have the fantasy that money will make them happy; unhappy rich people don't even have that.

Dennis Prager

#31. It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.

Masha Gessen

#32. I admit that when I think of the money one could make from all this, I get a little twinge. But I'm pretty happy with nerd values: Get yourself a comfortable living, then do a little something to change the world.

Craig Newmark

#33. It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

Malcolm Gladwell

#34. I took no money to make art, but my woman backed me up on it and I want my children to see their father happy.

Jason Momoa

#35. Childhood is a naturally unhappy period of our existence, Lillian. It was Walt Disney who invented the notion that it has to be happy, simply to make money.

Isabel Allende

#36. Tomorrow when you come to work, if it doesn't make the customer happy, move the business forward, and save us money - don't do it.

Reed Hastings

#37. All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

Spike Milligan

#38. You spend your TIME to make a DIME. You lose your HEALTH to make your WEALTH, but at the end it is FUNNY because you leave back all your MONEY.

R.v.m.

#39. Yes, when you are passionate about something, it shows. There is no point doing something that does not make you feel happy just to earn money. If you hate what you are doing, you are then just wasting your life,

Preeti Shenoy

#40. I had a very happy childhood and very loving parents. We didn't have much money and I suppose therefore you felt that anything you did you'd have to do on your own, so it does make you quite motivated.

Terry Leahy

#41. What you do on the inside effects your brain and chemistry and blood and DNA much more than anything you can do on the outside. I know many people who decide they will never be happy again. Never make money again. Never find romance again.

Anonymous

#42. A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.

Gary David Goldberg

#43. Money doesn't make u happy .. But happy makes you money..

Russell Simmons

#44. It's so important to have a hobby. A hobby is something creative that's just for you. You don't try to make money or get famous off it, you just do it because it makes you happy. A hobby is something that gives you but doesn't take.

Austin Kleon

#45. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#46. You have to stick to what you love and purse that at all costs. Don't choose money first; it won't make you happy.

Joel Edgerton

#47. Although money alone won't make us happy, the lack of money surely will make us miserable.

Suze Orman

#48. Perhaps... Perhaps he could make her happy. Not with the Granville money or his social cachet, but just by being the man he was, at his core. Sometimes, when he looked deep into those blue eyes, it felt like anything was possible.

Tessa Dare

#49. And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history - money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery - the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

C.S. Lewis

#50. Money cannot make you happy, but it can get rid of many of the things that make you unhappy.

Robert Anthony

#51. Money doesn't make you happy... but it sure doesn't make you said either!" - Nate Temple

Shayne Silvers

#52. To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he is different; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.

Helen Rowland

#53. I am personally happy for artists to make as much money as they can while they can to carry them through the times when they can't.

Michael Craig-Martin

#54. As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.

Neil Jackson

#55. I am at a stage in my life where I want to only do thing that I love. I only want to do things that make me happy. Making money is important, but it's not my ultimate driver.

Monita Rajpal

#56. If you could do something that would make people happy, and it would cost you neither money nor time, would you do it? If that same thing made you happy, would you do it? What is this magical thing that will brighten your day and the days of people around you and yet cost you nothing? A smile.

David Niven

#57. If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

Idries Shah

#58. The economy is getting tough yet we all needs to be happy. It may be difficult to get a job yet we needs to be happy. We may not have money in our pocket yet we needs to be happy so what can you offer to make someone happy even when you don't have a job, money or gifts to offer.
Just Smile ...

Anthony Iwuchukwu

#59. Money does not make you happy, but the lack of money can cause unhappiness.

Robert Kiyosaki

#60. The book 'Do You!' is about your inner voice. And when you connect to that voice then you - then the freedom comes. And we're only here to be happy. So happy makes money. Money doesn't make happy.

Russell Simmons

#61. Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.

Lionel Messi

#62. Is this money well spent? This is taxpayer money, it is going to be adding to the deficit short term and if we can't justify it, then we're not going to spend tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, just to make somebody happy, if it's not good for the economy.

Barack Obama

#63. Money doesn't make people happy. People make people happy.

Steve Wynn

#64. Money can enhance your life in many ways but it cannot purchase the essential things that make up a happy life.

D.S. Luca

#65. Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

Sean O'Casey

#66. She was happy. Her father had always told her to make sure and recognise that state when it arrived, and acknowledge it. 'It's like money in the bank, old girl', he would say ...

William Boyd

#67. My target is to make the players as rich as possible within the financial constraints of the club. My target is not to give them less money. I'm happy to make them rich.

Arsene Wenger

#68. No amount of money or possessions is ever going to make you feel fulfilled. No amount will ever be enough. No amount will ever make you happy.

C. Kancel

#69. The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Scott Alexander

#70. I'm going to miss Blockbuster. I'm gonna miss being CEO and all that stuff. We had an atmosphere where everybody was happy. When people make money, they're happy.

Wayne Huizenga

#71. I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.

Gene Simmons

#72. Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money.

Morrie Ryskind

#73. For the most part, having more money and more fame make your life harder. It just does. I've seen it happen with people. You know, it's so hard to stay normal. It's so hard to stay happy. It's hard to remember why you were doing what you did in the first place.

Rashida Jones

#74. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

David Geffen

#75. If money does not make you happy, give it back

Jules Renard

#76. The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy.

Richard Dreyfuss

#77. Be open to the realization that who you were before and who you are now are two different people, and that what may have made you happy then, may not be the same thing that will make you happy now.

Stephen Richards

#78. The purpose of money is to trade for things that make you happy. So if you can bypass money and get directly to the happy, you've saved a lot of trouble. And it makes others happier, too, when you organize your business around non-monetary things.

Derek Sivers

#79. Money isn't always going to make it happen. It's important to be around people that have the right kind of attitude, being happy about what you're doing.

Eli Manning

#80. Being a star and having money do not make for a happy person.

Ken Kercheval

#81. Money doesn't make you happy," Mom insists, whipping carrots and lettuce out of the cart. "Money doesn't make you laugh when you're lonely, or make you full of contentment on Christmas morning.

Roxanne St. Claire

#82. I won't do things for money. I can't. So I'll hold out and say, in my mind, 'There's a really cool diner down the street from my house. They make really good pancakes; I'd be happy doing that.'

Brie Larson

#83. It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#84. I know a lot of wealthy people in West Los Angeles. Money doesn't necessarily make you happy.

Frederick Lenz

#85. When you learn to make everybody happy, you will possess the golden secret of how to milk the contented voters. But do it in such a way that they won't think you want them to vote for you just because you need the money.They need the money, and besides, they can think up other reasons if they try.

Gracie Allen

#86. And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.

Alan Paton

#87. I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I've learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, 'cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

Kendrick Lamar

#88. No, I'm happy doing this. Five sweaters and a pair of dirty pants, you can make pretty good money.

McLean Stevenson

#89. Money can't make you happy but being happy can make you money

Darrius Garrett

#90. My goals are - I don't need much. I'm a simple man. I think that success is having fun. And when I'm having fun doing music, I'm happy. If I can make a little money on the side doing it, I'm really happy.

Bruno Mars

#91. Until 'you' FULLY embrace who 'you are', no amount of money, no person or external things will EVER make you happy or bring you peace.

Yvonne Pierre

#92. If we have not developed a reservoir of spiritual wealth, no amount of money is likely to make us happy. Spiritual wealth provides faith. It gives us love. It brings and expands wisdom. Spiritual wealth leads to happiness because it guides us into useful or loving relationships.

John Templeton

#93. There are some things that you can fulfil with money, but at the end of the day these are not the things that make you happy. It is the small things that make life good.

Sebastian Vettel

#94. Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.

Robert Kiyosaki

#95. I'm just happy to be working, personally, and I make a lot of money on these for doing next to nothing.

Justin Bartha

#96. People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won't be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries.

Michel Gondry

#97. All the things you think are important - money, power, material possessions - none of them will make you happy. There's no correlation between wealth and happiness. Absolutely none. It's one of society's biggest lies.

Andrew Peterson

#98. Now that I have all the things I once thought would make me happy, they have little meaning for me. Experience, and not just a little heartache, has taught me money buys convenience and conveniences.

Oprah Winfrey

#99. I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.

Kid Rock

#100. But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.

Heidi Klum