Bruce Johnston Quotes

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

I could easily exist on less money, but I like the way I live now.

No matter how much money I ever get, I'm going to want to provide for my family and never have to go back to really struggling. You don't ever want to go outside, you don't ever want to be left in the cold. You want to be safe.

I've already gotten the big paychecks. I'll be fine.

I've never had anything. I just wanted to one day live comfortable. Like, be able to go out to lunch with my friends without being like, crap, I don't know if I can afford this bill right now. I shouldn't be doing this. That's all I really wanted.

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

If you're comfortable with what you have and who you are, you'll automatically be more comfortable talking about your finances.

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.

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.

I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.

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

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

But you've got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn't matter as much when you're young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it.

I always made a decent living.

I don't think I'm a millionaire, but I'm comfortable.

Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that's a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful.

I care about my quality of life and money.

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.

I'm from Berkeley, so I don't really aspire to a lot of glitzy stuff. But things like having a home that I'm comfortable in or leasing a car that I'm comfortable in, basic everyday kind of stuff, I will splurge for that.

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.

You always hear people say, 'I just want to live comfortably.' And I'm like, 'What does that mean?'

There's so much serenity that comes from economic safety.

As long as I'm living decent, then I'm cool.