Brian May Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

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

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

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

The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.

I'm happy without 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.

Money ain't everything.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

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

Life started getting good when I started making money.

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

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

Money does not guarantee success.

Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.

But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.

A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.

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.