John Steinbeck Quotes

Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.

I think if you were to ask me when I was much younger what my definition of the good life was, I think it would have sounded a lot like what most people would say - a life with all the things you want and everything you think you need to make you happy, and these sorts of things.

So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.

Money and good life had never been my goal.

One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.

The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi fruits and warriors coming to my door, besotted with love. I deserved pictures of my face in a thousand expressions, and the warmth of a baby's kick beneath my hand. I deserved to grow, and to change, to become all the girls I could be over the course of my life, each one better than the last.

You want the people to know, but you don't really want the things behind it. I have everything I ever wanted. I never wanted a big house. I never wanted a Ferrari. I mean, as I proceeded with the music, I started liking Ferraris...

Well, if someone has got all the money in the world, they'd still want love.

But what's the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a beautiful house and be respected by people.

People don't want to be millionaires - they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.

Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are.

What life really is all about is happiness. It's not money, or stature, or the amount of cars you have in your driveway. Life, a really successful life, is one in which you are loved and love somebody else, or some other people.

I used to imagine it. I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip. And now that I have that? I can't even describe that feeling. That's why I like the best - the best cars, the best food, the best watches.

All that matters in life," the grey man went on, "is to climb the ladder of success, amount to something, own things. When a person climbs higher than the rest, amounts to more, owns more things, everything else comes automatically: friendship, love, respect, et cetera..." "Isn't there anyone who loves you?" Momo whispered.

You're asking if I'm happy? I've got 87 million in the bank, I've got a Rolls Royce, I've got 3 stalkers, I'm about to go on the board at Manchester City, I'm part of the greatest band in the world. Am I happy with that? No, I'm not! I want more!

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

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

If you make money, you might not make meaning.

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.

More people smile at me now I'm richer.