Aristotle Onassis Quotes

Money and fame, it only makes you so happy. You gotta find other reasons to fight. I want a certain amount of money to do the things that I want to do.

Money doesn't drive me.

You see, money isn't everything - I know it sounds corny but I really mean it - success means a lot more.

I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.

Money ain't everything.

It's not always about the money.

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.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

It's not always about the money and the fame, and a lot of people think that it is sometimes.

Anybody who seeks wealth as an end in itself is always going to be disappointed. What you really should be doing is seeking excellence in achievement.

A lot of money with the wrong career is not going to make you happy. If you have money without happiness, it doesn't mean anything. It's all about happiness.

Just because you got money doesn't mean you're gonna be happy, and just 'cuz you can buy everything in the world doesn't mean you're gonna find your purpose.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

If you make money, you might not make meaning.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

Success must never be measured by how much money you have.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

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

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

So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

If someone has children, the first thing they want is for them to be happy, and then become someone in life and all that. But the educational system, I mean always, not just now, creates competitive, successful people, and does not educate them to be happy. The problem is that success gives money, not happiness. The eternal problem.

Money can't buy happiness.

I don't look at things goin', 'Oh, is this gonna make me rich? Is this gonna make me a star? Am I gonna win awards?' If all that stuff happens, great. Who cares? I still have to wake up in the morning and go to work and be happy to do it.