Lauren Greenfield Quotes

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.

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

You can be as rich, and famous, and powerful as you want to be, and it will not bring you happiness. That's said over and over and over, again. It's such a cliché that it hardly needs to be said, but people don't understand that it's actually true.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

I envied it; not the idea of having so much money that you could throw it away, but the thought of growing up in a world where someone cared so much about your happiness and so little about what you accomplished in life.

Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "lacking ambition."

Money ain't everything.

I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.

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

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

I've been there and done all that, sold millions of records, and that doesn't bring you peace.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,' and they abandon their values.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.

Nothing will stifle your human evolution more than fame and fortune.

Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything.

I wanted to have money; I wanted to be special; I wanted people to like me; I wanted to be famous.

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

If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.

'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury.

Money is not everything.

Sure, I can afford a nice car and a nice place, but this is not what brings me happiness. Now you're on a high, and people know you and things like that, but how many people will remember your name once it all stops and the money isn't raining from the sky?

Money is not the most important to me.

I would rather just be successful and have money than be famous.

Money is important, but it's not everything.