John Chrysostom Quotes

People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.

But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.

The want of money is the root of all evil.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

There are plenty of miserable millionaires all over the place.

Marrying for money is not a good idea at any time, but it is particualrly stupid for really rich people to do it.

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.

You're asking if I'm happy? I've got 87 million in the bank, I've got a Rolls Royce, I've got 3 stalkers, I'm about to go on the board at Manchester City, I'm part of the greatest band in the world. Am I happy with that? No, I'm not! I want more!

Our societies have achieved a general level of prosperity of which most of all the human beings who have ever lived could only dream. Now we need to show that we can stop continually wanting more - more money, more stuff. We must show that it is possible for people to realise that they have enough.

I know people who are wealthy and they're miserable.

Whenever money is in the game, it can suffocate anything and anyone else, and I think people have been misled by money, or the dream of money, or selling the dream that if you've made it money-wise, you've made a life. Which is a lie. You don't get happiness by money.

I am always a little skeptical when I see people talking about how much money they have.

No success will ever quench your thirst - my rich person's therapist told me that.

Just because you are living the dream making millions of dollars doesn't mean you don't go through problems.

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.

Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.

Great wealth often curses all who touch it.

O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!