Nas Quotes

Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

It's funny how you realize what's important, and it's not fame and money, even though it can be really nice. It's happiness and whatever it takes to make you feel happy.

Everybody needs money, obviously, but that's far from being the most important thing in the world to me.

Money is not the most important to me.

My well-being and my happiness is much more important to me than how much I can achieve.

Success itself doesn't give you happiness. It's what you do with your success that gives you happiness.

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity." - Lady Taylor

Happiness is overrated and money can't justify it.

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

Happiness is more important than money any day.

Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!

Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

I'm someone who'd never base how happy I am on how much money I have, or how good a restaurant is because of how posh it is.

What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.

I have a life that I enjoy; I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.

I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.

I like money, but it's never been about the money.

Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything.

I like fashion. I like being in shape. I like to look nice and I like to make money, but I don't think that's the most, No. 1, important thing.

It's honestly true that money means nothing to me.