A Quote by Groucho Marx

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

Groucho Marx

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Groucho Marx
American - Comedian
October 2, 1890 - August 19, 1977

When happiness gets into your system, it is bound to break out on your face. While money can't buy happiness it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. You always know, at this very moment, exactly what it would be to look, and feel, and be, and act completely Happy.

Adi Da

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

Daniel Kahneman

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

John Caudwell

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Spike Milligan

Money is a token, money buys freedom, it don't necessarily buy happiness and I've still got things I'm overcoming in my own mind, but money will buy you the freedom to not have to work as many hours. Money will buy you the freedom to spend more time with your family.

Bugzy Malone

Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. ... Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

Daniel Kahneman

Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Andre Gide

This is what life does. It lets you walk up to the store to buy breakfast and the paper, on a stiff knee. It lets you choose the way you have your eggs, your coffee. Then it sits a fisherman down beside you at the counter who says, Last night, the channel was full of starfish. And you wonder, is this a message, finally, or just another day?

Eleanor Lerman

Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.

Zig Ziglar

I wouldn't say money can buy happiness. Happiness starts with yourself. Money can buy a smile, though.

Mike Will Made It

You are here to create the world around you that YOU choose - while you allow the world, as others choose it to be, to exist also. And while their choices in no way hinder your own choices, your attention to what they are choosing does affect your vibration - and therefore your own point of attraction.

Esther Hicks

Money can't buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.

Ronald Reagan

Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.

Pico Iyer

If you don’t own a home, buy one. If you own one home, buy another one, and if you own two homes buy a third and lend your relatives the money to buy a home.

John Paulson

The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.