Malcolm Turnbull Quotes

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.

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

Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.

I don't live to work; I work to live.

I'd tell any coach not to move for money... Stay at your job if you're really happy.

It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it.

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.

There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families.

People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.

I think family, friends and a sense of community give you greater happiness than money. But, of course, one has to have a minimum on which to live. The joy I get from sitting around and having a laugh is immeasurable - much greater than anything that I have ever bought.

There's no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we're happy; end of story.

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

If you have the feeling of choice, if you feel free, you will be better off. And when I say better off I mean that if people feel they have control over their lives, they call in for fewer sick days from work. They have a lesser probability of having a heart attack or stroke. They live longer. They're happier.

I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness.

I think if you're an unhappy person, you're always going to be an unhappy person. You're probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I'm being honest.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.

I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy.

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

Happiness may exist under all conditions, given the right kind of people and sufficient economic security for adequate food and shelter.

I know that no business contract, no order or commercial consideration can ever be worth the happiness of one's home or the peace of one's mind.