Daniel Kahneman Quotes

Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure.

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

For centuries, prosperity has been easy to define in material terms. At a personal level, by how much one earns; how much one has.

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

Money is just a way of keeping score.

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

If you make money, you might not make meaning.

Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.

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.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.

Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.

Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.

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.

I care about my quality of life and money.

One of the things I think we need to emphasize to all young people, whether rich or poor, is the fact that while everyone needs to be able to provide themselves with a decent standard of living, lacking certain other qualifications in themselves, the money which makes such a standard possible will not give them a happy life.

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

Prosperity has nothing to do with the quantity of money that we have in our pockets, but rather with the quantity of goods that we can buy.

You want to have a good job so you can make good money. You want to make good money so you can buy nice things. You want to have nice things so you can impress a nice woman.

Money doesn't make you happy - I know people in the U.K. with money, they never seem to be happy.

Money is not everything, but it is better than having one's health.

Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

The money, the fame, if that comes, that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, my aim is to go to sleep at night content and have a purpose, and to know that I'm not swapping my life for money and some mind-numbing boring job, making easy money and protecting my brain.