Oscar Wilde Quotes

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

When you are 81 years old, you don't really need a lot of the trappings of wealth.

Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don't need it.

Money ain't everything.

Money and good life had never been my goal.

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places.

Money is not the most important to me.

I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.

Life is not about money.

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

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

It's not always about the money.

Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.

When you realise that money doesn't actually make you happy, it's a quick fix to have things you've always wanted, but then when you have it, you realise that's not what actually makes you happy. It's more about having a great marriage and happy children; that's what life's all about.

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

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.

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

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

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

I think when we shot 'Tokyo Drift' I was a little too young to really understand what made Han who he is, and then I got older, and you start to make a little bit of money, and you realize that money will never buy you happiness.

Not everything is about money.

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