Lapo Elkann Quotes

Being a star and having money do not make for a happy person.

Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not really what happiness is.

Money can't buy happiness.

Contentment is the only real wealth.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

I mean, I couldn't ask for a better life, man.

No matter how many frustrations come along, or how many problems arise, I never lose the feeling of how lucky I am. I'm so pleased to be doing a job that makes me laugh every day. I'm aware that it's a huge privilege.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

If you're not happy before you're successful, you're going to be miserable when you do become successful because all your problems just get magnified.

Another car is not going to help me out, a nicer car, I've already got it. A bigger house ain't gonna do anything for me, and you know, a yacht, it's not going to do anything for me anymore. So how can I find happiness?

Money cannot buy happiness.

Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.

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

I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

Money doesn't make people happy. People make people happy.

Don't think you're going to be happy when you get something. You have to be happy on your way to happy.

The money never mattered. I'm not kidding you. It hasn't really brought me any kind of happiness.

I hate to sound blase about it, but literary status is not important to me. Being happy is important to me.

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

Honestly, I think if you don't have happiness and you don't have love in your life you can have all the money and all the symbols in the world and it won't make any difference.

I wouldn't say money can buy happiness. Happiness starts with yourself. Money can buy a smile, though.