Pico Iyer Quotes

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

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

I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness.

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

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

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

I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

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

Money ain't everything.

I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

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

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

While prosperity is in some ways related to money, it is not caused by money.

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

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.

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

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.

Money's a necessary evil, there to give you moments. It gives me things I couldn't have - nice things - but happiness? That's a not a question of money and fame. Quite the opposite.

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.

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

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.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

With all my work, I have not more, with my shares in the bank and the Academy, than twelve or thirteen thousand reales a year, and with all this, I am as contented as the happiest man on earth.

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

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