Maeve Binchy Quotes

Don’t ever underestimate the importance of money. I know it’s often been said that money won’t make you happy and this is undeniably true, but everything else being equal, it’s a lovely thing to have around the house.

Money does not make you happy, but the lack of money can cause unhappiness.

Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.

There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.

Of course money buys happiness. You ever seen a homeless person skip? The answer to that riddle's no. They're not allowed.

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

I've always been very supported. I've never really been sad. I've just been broke. They are very different things.

I find success to be being able to do what you love and provide for your family by doing what you love.

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.

The wellbeing we all crave goes hand in hand with economic success.

People just want to live their best lives. They want to be socially free, physically safe, and financially secure.

Life happens fast. You have to have a Plan B, a backup plan and really figure out a way to have different avenues of income and just avenues of happiness. That is what is really important, being at peace and having that happiness.

Success itself doesn't give you happiness. It's what you do with your success that gives you happiness.

Admittedly, having a bit of disposable cash in the bank can give you a sense of Buddhistic calm, and despite the fallacy involved, that's probably preferable to the bonafide adventure of robbing a bank. A better alternative, however, is to learn to be at peace even when common sense (a highly overrated virtue) would lead you to believe that someone in your situation ought to feel threatened and insecure.

Solvency feels better than anything you can spend money on.

For most Americans, their primary aspiration is to achieve a better life... To earn a livable wage in a good job. To have the time to spend with family and do the things they enjoy. To be able to retire with security. And to give their own kids a chance to do as well or better than themselves.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.

Three things have helped me successfully go through the ordeals of life -- an understanding husband, a good analyst and millions of dollars.

There's a certain Buddhistic calm that comes from having... money in the bank.