“Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.”
Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.”
Vol. 2, Ch. 26, § 320
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims
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“Money is the best recipe for happiness.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park (1814)
Works, Mansfiled Park
Variant: A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”
Daniel Kahneman (1934) Israeli-American psychologist
Source: Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology
“Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.”
Neil Simon (1927–2018) playwright, writer, academic
Interviewed in Newsweek, (2 February 1970)
“Who hath so entire happiness that he is not in some part offended with the condition of his estate?”
Quis est enim tam compositae felicitatis ut non aliqua ex parte cum status sui qualitate rixetur?
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480) philosopher of the early 6th century
Prose IV, line 12
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book II
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
L'amour abstrait ne suffit pas à un homme pauvre et grand, il en veut tous les dévouements... La véritable épouse en cœur, en chair et en os, se laisse traîner là où va celui en qui réside sa vie, sa force, sa gloire, son bonheur.
The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831), Part II: A Woman Without a Heart