Malik Bendjelloul Quotes

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

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

I think if you were to ask me when I was much younger what my definition of the good life was, I think it would have sounded a lot like what most people would say - a life with all the things you want and everything you think you need to make you happy, and these sorts of things.

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

Success must never be measured by how much money you have.

So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.

Success is a sort of metaphysical experience. I live exactly as I did before - only on a slightly bigger scale. Naturally, I won't be corrupted. I'll sit there in my Rolls, uncorrupted, and tell my chauffeur, uncorruptedly, where to go.

I do know some of the world's richest people. In monetary terms, they all performed very well. In terms of a fulfilling life, I am less sure.

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

But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.

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

If there's some triumphant end of the story, I guess in a roundabout way I've gotten what I wanted, which is the ability to do interesting things and the wealth to be free.

The best part of success is that it got me past the basic survival level of existence so that I was comfortable. I didn't have to worry about stuff pertaining to survival. Once that was taken care of, I got the chance sit down and create and work at what I do.

Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does buy happier.

Money will not give you happiness; it's part of the key.

Money is not going to bring me happiness.

Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it's the ability to give.

Money is important, but it's not everything.

With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

I have a very good life, a high quality of life. I have both money and time. No one has that.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

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.