Money & happiness quotes

[jenk]

[M]oney doesn't add much to people's happiness once they're raised above the subsistence or poverty level.

"Money does make a huge difference when you're talking about going from $8,000 a year to $30,000," said [attorney Jon Gallo, co-author of the book "The Financially Intelligent Parent."] citing the research of Harvard psychology professor Daniel Gilbert, who wrote "Stumbling on Happiness." "Between $50,000 and $500,000, though, the difference is scarcely measurable."
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[E]ven if you do win that raise, or that lottery jackpot, you'd adjust pretty quickly to the improvement in your circumstances and would soon want even more.
— Liz Pulliam Weston


[I]f money is what you value, then money, indeed, will make you happy."

"However ... among those who had a relatively strong tendency to value work because they enjoyed it or it fulfilled them, those making more money were actually less happy than those making relatively little money."
— Berkeley Psychology PhD candidate Ariel Malka on research into money and happiness.


"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
— Dale Carnegie