B. C. Forbes Quotes

Varied are the ideas of what constitutes "success," e.g. money, position, power, achievement, honours, and the like. But these are not open to every man-nor do they bring what is real success, namely, happiness.

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

When you do something that works you have a happiness, but I don't know if it's a feeling of power. Power is a frightening thing and that's not what I'm interested in. I want to do certain things and make them right in my mind and that's it.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night

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

Money buys you nice things but it doesn't make you happy.

Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

My biggest life lesson is that money cannot buy happiness.

Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.

Money isn't always going to make it happen. It's important to be around people that have the right kind of attitude, being happy about what you're doing.

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body

I feel that I already have the life I love and I don't see how it could be improved radically by any greater material success I might have - bigger advances, more prizes. It's a kind of madness. And the culture of prize-giving is so corrupt.

I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances.

Satisfaction comes from the inside out, so people keep gravitating from things externally to try to fill something - get a man to complete them, get money to complete them, get a job to complete them and still find themselves frustrated.

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.

Success must never be measured by how much money you have.

Feeling good about yourself and your life is very important. I'm a happy woman, happy with my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren. We all get along quite well, and that keeps me centered.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

I think I'm as content as one can be.

When you realise that money doesn't actually make you happy, it's a quick fix to have things you've always wanted, but then when you have it, you realise that's not what actually makes you happy. It's more about having a great marriage and happy children; that's what life's all about.

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

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.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Success to me does not mean money.