Ross Perot Quotes

What I think is so amazing about having everything, and feeling like I have everything, is that I don't really find happiness within materialistic things. Like, it's cool if I can buy myself a new car, and I think it's amazing for a week, but then the thrill is over, and I'm like, 'Oh, so I guess that wasn't really happiness.'

I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.

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.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.

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.

Stuff can't make you happy.

Another car is not going to help me out, a nicer car, I've already got it. A bigger house ain't gonna do anything for me, and you know, a yacht, it's not going to do anything for me anymore. So how can I find happiness?

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.

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.

Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.

Why is everybody so obsessed? Money can't buy us happiness

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

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.

Money can't buy happiness.

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.

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

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

Money never made me.

If you're not happy before you're successful, you're going to be miserable when you do become successful because all your problems just get magnified.

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Money cannot buy happiness.