B. C. Forbes Quotes

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.

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.

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.

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

Money and good life had never been my goal.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.

You want the people to know, but you don't really want the things behind it. I have everything I ever wanted. I never wanted a big house. I never wanted a Ferrari. I mean, as I proceeded with the music, I started liking Ferraris...

If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure.

Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

I used to think that having many material things would increase one's stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don't make the man at all.

Wealth and Content are not always Bed-fellows.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

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.

Money ain't everything.

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

I feel so rich in my emotions and in my life and so grateful when I'm home and so grateful when I'm at work.

Money can't buy happiness.

Money gives me pleasure all the time.