Zig Ziglar Quotes

As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing.

No matter how much money I ever get, I'm going to want to provide for my family and never have to go back to really struggling. You don't ever want to go outside, you don't ever want to be left in the cold. You want to be safe.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Money is kind of just like air - if you don't have air, you can't breathe. If you don't have money, I don't think you'll want to breathe - you won't want to live.

Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.

I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.

Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

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

We're just kinda surviving at a very comfortable level.

Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that's a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful.

I care about my quality of life and money.

Money is the most important thing because there might be a time when you have no label behind you and you have to carry yourself. Money is the only thing that can shield you.

One of the things I think we need to emphasize to all young people, whether rich or poor, is the fact that while everyone needs to be able to provide themselves with a decent standard of living, lacking certain other qualifications in themselves, the money which makes such a standard possible will not give them a happy life.

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.

Life is the most important. Always.

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.

Money is important, but the most important thing for me is to play football, and then I'm happy. OK, you want to earn a good amount of money to be secure, but if I chose money, I would go to Russia and already have a lot more. I like to play football, and that is it.

money is not everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen

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

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

Money for me today does not really matter.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.