Margaret Halsey Quotes

What is success anyway? Is success about making the most money? No. Money, for the most part, turns people into jerks.

Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are.

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

What is there that money will not do?

Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.

All things obey money.

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Greed, greed, greed. That’s the fundamental problem of mankind. If we can solve that problem, the rest of man’s problems would follow. The only thing that can undermine our free society is greed.

One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.

People can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money.

Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

Money will not change how healthy you are or how many people love you.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail.

Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.

If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.

People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic. They have some issue. They have some interest. It may be world peace. It may be preserving carried interest. But it's not altruistic.

Happiness is overrated and money can't justify it.

Things we think of as tremendous advantages can get in the way of being happy, and wealth is one of those things where people can become isolated within this luxury and not connect.

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