Mary Tyler Moore Quotes

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

I'm O.K. having a comfortable life. I don't have to live in a mansion and drive Aston Martins or Ferraris.

I've always been very supported. I've never really been sad. I've just been broke. They are very different things.

You know, life hasn't changed that much for me. It's just, everything's gotten a little nicer. I drive a nicer car. I live in a nicer house.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

I remember being really poor until I got my first $250,000 check from Faberge. That was pretty nice; I put it in the bank, and from that moment on, there seemed to be a lot of champagne and limousines in my life.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

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

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.

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

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.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Money gives me pleasure all the time.

Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.

I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.

It is fun to be Rich DeVos. It's great fun.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

I come from a background where money has never been an issue.

I'm rich, freakin' rich. It's crazy.

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.

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

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.