Denis Waitley Quotes

Money ain't everything.

Money is not everything.

Money is not the most important to me.

I don't want my life to be about a house and a car.

Possessions can possess you. Even a lawn can possess you. It makes you buy a garden hose. Which makes you water. Which cuts into time you might be happier spending some other way.

Money is important, but it's not everything.

Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

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.

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

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.

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.

Money and good life had never been my goal.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it.

You don't have to make, you know, $3 Million dollars a movie, or $20 Million dollars a movie, but if you make a living doing what you love doing, then that's success to me.

Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.

Don't sit and wish for some ideal; the grass is not always greener with the big house and cars and artwork.