Jean Chatzky Quotes

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.

Buying experience such as going out to dinner or taking a vacation increases our own wellbeing and the wellbeing of others. Experiences last while material purchases fade.

I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me.

I'm old and happy. I've had a good life.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

Stuff can't make you 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...

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

Some people, of course, can be happier with the cars, the fancy threads, the hilltop mansion, and the other status symbols of 'having made it', but I found that several of my most prized possessions were slipping away, despite all the fortune I had amassed.

What do you think it is that drives people to want far more than they could ever use or need? I frankly think it's insecurity. How do we let the world know that the trappings of this life are not the things that are ultimately important for being accepted?

We become happier not by accumulating more things but by creating richer experiences

You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.

The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.

When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.

Success is measured by the memories you create.

If happiness could be bought, we'd probably be unhappy at the price tag. If only the secret of happiness was as simple as getting wealthy and spending more.

People are obsessed by happiness, but there are a lot of other invigorating experiences available.

Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment, they have had what they wanted.

People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.

What I've noticed is that people who love what they do, regardless of what that might be, tend to live longer.

Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

It’s hard, in America, not to equate ‘happiness’ with ‘things’.

I think the reward for doing comedy is doing the comedy itself. You get to go to work everyday and laugh and make other people laugh and to me there's no greater reward than that.

People aren't happy unless they buy stuff, and that's because we have become this industrialized nation.