Jake LaMotta Quotes

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

Money is all right but once you have it you learn it's not the be all and end all.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

I never put a premium on making a living. It was never one of those things that was important to me.

I try not to live my life thinking about money because money doesn't make me happy.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

I had no desire to be an upward-mobile-rising yuppie with a trophy wife, a trophy house, a trophy car. I wasn't looking for any of those things. I already had what I wanted.

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.

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

Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.

There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

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.

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'

I don't know what the point of life is, but I'm certain that five gold medals is not it.

Money will not give you happiness; it's part of the key.

Money is not something that's very important to me.

Fame and fortune and the interstate is great and fun, but it ain't life.

Sometimes money is not everything.

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.

I don't want my life to be about a house and a car.

Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.