Noel Edmonds Quotes

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

It's not all about money for me.

My career is important but it's not the be-all and end-all of my life.

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.

The goal isn't to be successful; it's to be happy. And so it doesn't matter if I'm doing things in New York or teaching high school or I drop it altogether and sell coffee. The goal is to be happy, and people and relationships are what makes you happy.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.

I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career.

Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

If you have only one life, you can't altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?

I don't live out my career, I live my life.

There is more to life than show business.

More choice doesn't make us happy, and we understand that no one has infinite choices about how to live life.

I really don't want to encourage young people to think that life is about money only. Life is about being able to give yourself choice.

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

We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.

Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.

If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

The money, the fame, if that comes, that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, my aim is to go to sleep at night content and have a purpose, and to know that I'm not swapping my life for money and some mind-numbing boring job, making easy money and protecting my brain.