Stefan Molyneux Quotes

I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

I know people who are wealthy and they're miserable.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness.

Money doesn't make you happy - I know people in the U.K. with money, they never seem to be happy.

It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don't just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness.

Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.

Happiness is overrated and money can't justify it.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.

Fame and fortune, how empty they can be.

As a lawyer, money was my driving force. As the years passed, I accumulated more but was less happy.

The people who get more fame, who get more money, more often than not they are miserable, insecure and on anti-depressants. It's strange that everyone keeps buying into this idea that more success is good, that more fame is good, that more money is good. Yet, we look at the people who have more success, more fame, more money and they're miserable.

You're asking if I'm happy? I've got 87 million in the bank, I've got a Rolls Royce, I've got 3 stalkers, I'm about to go on the board at Manchester City, I'm part of the greatest band in the world. Am I happy with that? No, I'm not! I want more!

What life really is all about is happiness. It's not money, or stature, or the amount of cars you have in your driveway. Life, a really successful life, is one in which you are loved and love somebody else, or some other people.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

I am not against money - remember. Don't misinterpret me: I am not against money. I am not against anything. Money is a means. If you are happy and you have money, you will become more happy. If you are unhappy and you have money, you will become more unhappy because what will you do with your money? Your money will enhance your pattern, whatsoever it is. If you are miserable and you have power, what will you do with your power? You will poison yourself more with your power, you will become more miserable.

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.

Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others-the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it yields to the majority of its possessors the poorest return in heart's contentment.