Rohini Nilekani Quotes

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.

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

When people evaluate their life, they compare themselves to a standard of what a successful life is, and it turns out that standard tends to be universal: People in Togo and Denmark have the same idea of what a good life is, and a lot of that has to do with money and material prosperity.

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

Our goal is to upgrade the life of China's middle class. We all want to live better.

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

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 doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.

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.

If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.

We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.

I do know some of the world's richest people. In monetary terms, they all performed very well. In terms of a fulfilling life, I am less sure.

Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.'

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

Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.