Karen Carpenter Quotes

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.

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

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

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

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

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

You can have X amount of pounds in your bank every month, but if you're not happy, and you're not finding peace in what you're doing, it doesn't really matter.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more 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 was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.

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.

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

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

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.

I don't care whether something makes one dollar or a trillion because guess what? I don't know many happy rich people. And I know a lot of rich people.

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

This is my life... I mean, maybe I have Rs 100 crore in the bank, sitting comfortably. If that increases to Rs 10,000 crore, what difference does it make to me.

I've had moments in my career when I've made more money and had more success than at other times, but I've realized being happy has very little to do with any of that.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.