Adam Davidson Quotes

We shouldn't measure everything in terms of GDP figures or economics. There is something called quality of life.

Richer people tend to be happier than poor people, and people in poor countries tend to be less happy than people in rich countries.

It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP, but on GWB - general well-being.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.

Economics spreads happiness.

Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there.

Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.'

I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness.

When you ask people what affects their wellbeing most, they think of health and wealth.

The only really important thing, at the end of the day, is your health. If you haven't got that, then all the money in the world isn't going to bring you happiness.

Economic resources are not all that matter in people's lives.

I am a happier person living in a country which has surplus of everything rather than shortages.

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

Our health underpins our happiness and is a foundation of economic advancement.

A U.N. study claims the happiest country in the world is Switzerland. When asked why they're so happy, Swiss people couldn't answer because their hands were counting money and their mouths were full of chocolate.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Yes, there is a burden of financial insecurity. I don't think you find it in mood. Income is correlated with life satisfaction, so maybe you do find it in life satisfaction. You don't find it in mood, and I think it is very important.

We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.