Adam Smith Quotes

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

Money ain't everything.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Richer people tend to be happier than poor people, and people in poor countries tend to be less happy than people in rich countries.

Wealth and Content are not always Bed-fellows.

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

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.

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

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.

Money's a necessary evil, there to give you moments. It gives me things I couldn't have - nice things - but happiness? That's a not a question of money and fame. Quite the opposite.

Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any.

You go to India and you see the poorest village somewhere in the middle of India. And the poor family is happier than any rich billionaire in this country because of spirituality.

I don't care about having money. It's about being happy, man.

Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

Money can't buy happiness.

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

When you realise that money doesn't actually make you happy, it's a quick fix to have things you've always wanted, but then when you have it, you realise that's not what actually makes you happy. It's more about having a great marriage and happy children; that's what life's all about.

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.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.