John Lanchester Quotes

No one wants growth, constant expansion, physical swelling. Growth is not a human value; it's a means to the ends of sufficiency and security. Once we have enough, no one wants more, unless it is sold to us as a cheap substitute for something else, something non-material.

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

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

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.

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

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

Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don't need it.

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

After the first million, money isn't important.

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

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Money can't buy happiness.

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

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.

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of life, have all the stuff you want. But there should be a ceiling on it-enough is enough!

You're never rich enough if you can be richer.

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

When you are 81 years old, you don't really need a lot of the trappings of wealth.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

I always tried to live my life as though nothing changed. People would say, 'You can have a Rolls-Royce'. I'd say to that, 'What do I want with a Rolls-Royce when I can have a Volkswagen or a bike?' Some people get carried away with the juice.

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

Enough is as good as a feast.

Not everything is about money.

He is rich enough who has no wants.