Patrick Dixon Quotes

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

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

People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.

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.

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.

Money never made me.

I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't know very many of them that are happy.

The more we consume, acquire, and elevate our status, the harder it is to stay happy.

You can be as rich, and famous, and powerful as you want to be, and it will not bring you happiness. That's said over and over and over, again. It's such a cliché that it hardly needs to be said, but people don't understand that it's actually true.

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

The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.

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.

How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.

What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

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

Guys, just remember, if you get lucky, if you make a lot of money, if you get out and buy a lot of stuff--it's gonna break. You got your biggest, fanciest mansion in the world. It has air conditioning. It's got a pool. Just think of all the pumps that are going to go out. Or go to a yacht basin any place in the world. Nobody is smiling, and I'll tell you why. Something broke that morning. The generator's out; the microwave oven doesn't work . . . Things just don't mean happiness.

Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

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

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

I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

Money can't buy happiness.