Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP. 693
There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true. 636
I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn’t want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith – I’ve had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I’d like to be J. K. Rowling, but I’ll settle for second best. 2.26K
Joe E. Lewis said, ‘Money doesn’t buy happiness but it calms the nerves.’ And that is how I feel about a film being well-received. 2.2K
You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness. 602
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. 1.42K
My happiness doesn’t come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle. 2.26K
There is an old saying that money can’t buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game. 994
So, my happiness doesn’t come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle. 767
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. 658
When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself. 1.4K
To me, money is the ability to create lifelong experiences for my family and myself, to educate my children and a way to give back to humanity. 610
The best thing I’ve done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody. 785
If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there’s a bank. There’s grocery stores and big houses – but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house. 1.55K
My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family. 731
I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars – BMW’s mostly – for myself and my family. 663
For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money – it is transformative. It’s about taking responsibility for yourself and your family. 719
Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women. 2.1K
