Daniel Gilbert Quotes

Yes, there is a burden of financial insecurity. I don't think you find it in mood. Income is correlated with life satisfaction, so maybe you do find it in life satisfaction. You don't find it in mood, and I think it is very important.

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

Money can't buy poverty.

Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.

Richer people tend to be happier than poor people, and people in poor countries tend to be less happy than people in rich countries.

‘Money can't buy happiness.’ That's just a lie we tell poor people to keep them from rioting in the streets

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

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.

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

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

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

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

... popular art has no chance of a healthy life, or, indeed, of a life at all, till we are on the way to fill up this terrible gulf between riches and poverty.

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

I think if you talk to anybody who ever went from not having much to having enough to buy what they wanted, they're always happier. Now I get that whole '$75,000 a year is some kind of magic number,' but my experience is 'more is better, up to a point.' Then there's a point where it doesn't make any difference.

I'm a poor person who has money.

I don't care whether something makes one dollar or a trillion because guess what? I don't know many happy rich people. And I know a lot of rich people.

I doubt that Donald Trump would be happier... if he was a different person. But Trump is always telling people how great his life is and about all the great things that he's done, and that's also all about his income. And that's also what we found. If you ask people how their lives are going, as a whole, it seems they tend to point to income.

Money doesn't make you happy - I know people in the U.K. with money, they never seem to be happy.

Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.

I don't care about having money. It's about being happy, man.