Matt Groening Quotes

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

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

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

I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness.

I don't think happiness comes with money, but if you are hungry, you can't be as happy as if you aren't hungry.

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.

I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

With all my work, I have not more, with my shares in the bank and the Academy, than twelve or thirteen thousand reales a year, and with all this, I am as contented as the happiest man on earth.

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

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

I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

I'm having as much fun today as I did when I made $55 a week, because it is as much fun.

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

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

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

I think if you talk to anybody who ever went from not having much to having enough to buy what they wanted, they're always happier. Now I get that whole '$75,000 a year is some kind of magic number,' but my experience is 'more is better, up to a point.' Then there's a point where it doesn't make any difference.

Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does buy happier.

I can't rely on my money to be happy.

Money is not everything.

If I have a roof over my head and if I'm cashing checks and choking some necks I'm always happy.

I don't need more money. I don't need that to be happy.

I doubt that Donald Trump would be happier... if he was a different person. But Trump is always telling people how great his life is and about all the great things that he's done, and that's also all about his income. And that's also what we found. If you ask people how their lives are going, as a whole, it seems they tend to point to income.

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.

The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy.