Kinky Friedman Quotes

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

This is my life... I mean, maybe I have Rs 100 crore in the bank, sitting comfortably. If that increases to Rs 10,000 crore, what difference does it make to me.

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.

Money and good life had never been my goal.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

I'm O.K. having a comfortable life. I don't have to live in a mansion and drive Aston Martins or Ferraris.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

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

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

Money ain't everything.

Money can't buy happiness.

God didn't make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God... If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.

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.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich.

Money never made me.

One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.

Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money.

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.

A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.