Maxime Bernier Quotes

For centuries, prosperity has been easy to define in material terms. At a personal level, by how much one earns; how much one has.

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

I am more rich in goods than I am in money.

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.

One of the things I think we need to emphasize to all young people, whether rich or poor, is the fact that while everyone needs to be able to provide themselves with a decent standard of living, lacking certain other qualifications in themselves, the money which makes such a standard possible will not give them a happy life.

Money is power and power gives you choice.

Money brings you security and choice. You can make decisions in a different way if you have a lot of money. But when you have nothing, you have a naivety, and a more fearless attitude because you have nothing to lose.

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

I believe that God's dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don't mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you're planted. But I don't have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

I think money helps us. It helps us. It's our - it's our exchange system. But it does not buy you happiness. It doesn't buy you health.

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.

Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

If nothing else, I have money.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

I am fairly rich. Money's very handy, let's face it.

Money grants you freedom, I guess.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.