Laurance Rockefeller Quotes

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.

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.

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 do not need a lot of money to be happy.

Material things are delightful, but they're not important.

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

We all want to just want to live a simple life, but nobody really knows how to do that.

Happiness does not require an expanding economy

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.

The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.

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.

The older you get and the wealthier you get, the more complicated life becomes. That's why I have as few material assets as possible. Every material thing you have is more hassle.

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

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.

Money and good life had never been my goal.

Money never made me.

I don't care if people know who I am or if I make a ton of money, I just love my work so much.

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

Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

Material things aren't important to me.

I'm okay with not having a super-secure lifestyle because if you're doing what you like, you don't need stuff to fill any empty holes.