Assuming you have other needs taken care of, like love and whatnot, money DOES bring happiness. The more money you have, the more freedom you enjoy, to do whatever the fuck you want. The more freedom you enjoy, the happier you are, as you don't have to worry about restrictions, be they of material or other nature. Don't know who said it but "I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better" seems spot on.

"Money doesn't bring happiness" is possibly the biggest crock of shit in history, right up there with religion. Must've been coined by some stinking rich people, in order to keep laborers happy with their low level of wealth, so they don't try to get rich too.

Yes, you would not 100% be happy if you have money but you'll 100% be unhappy if you don't have money.

Hell yeah. Exactly what I think ... Well said mate ....

Those who say money can't buy happiness, don't know where to shop.

Well money MAY not bring ultimate happiness, but it's proven that if you don't have money you are stressed, worried, and depressed (in many cases).

So those who say money does make you happy, are DELUDED

Couldn't agree more.

There was an investigation by an european university dont remember the name, which came to conclusion that happyness increases strongly from money until you hit around ~3000 Euro. After this step it only increases very slowly.

I have to agree to this. I always get lazy if i get enough money and also start loosing focus.

Also shopping only makes you happy a very short time. Its like a drug you need it all the time to work. :P

Originally Posted by DamageX

Assuming you have other needs taken care of, like love and whatnot, money DOES bring happiness.

Very much agreed. Even if you don't have any desire for a luxurious champagne and caviar lifestyle, just having enough money in the bank to last you for a while and handle any unexpected expenses is such a weight off your mind. If the car breaks down, the dog gets sick, you need a root canal or a new computer in a hurry, you can just go out and do it and not worry about it rather than turning over every penny twice. Financial stress is a real killer. And it's very difficult to maintain your physical health or a harmonious relationship if you're worried about money all the time.

Im pretty damn happy

Originally Posted by bk071

*DROOL* Love Raven Riley!

I would rather cry in my million dollar sports car than cry in no car at all.

I totally agree with that Damagex says, 100%

You dont have to worry about feeding your family, paying the bills etc, and you also have the freedom to do what you want rather than spending all your life working to make someone else richer.

Money doesn't bring happiness - that's true BUT (there's a big BUT here):

1. Poor families are miserable because OF MONEY
2. Money limits life

So the conclusion: Money doesn't guarantee happiness, but it gives you the opportunity to be happy

Bill Gates something similar: "Money doesn't bring happiness. Now that I have 51 billion I am as much happy as I had 50 billion". Something along these lines.

I can not say I'm poor but besides paying bills I can not afford to go out every weekend and eat at restaurant every day so I can not say I am unhappy but I'd certainly be happier to have money to buy nice things to my girlfriend to invest...and yes money may not bring ultimate happiness, but if you don't have money to pay your next bill you will become stressed,worried and trust me you can not be happy under these conditions.

Money in the wrong hands leads to a miserable life - see many lotto winners that not only piss it away but manage to get themselves in debt, jail or dying as they are pursued for tax evasion or just the stress of losing it all.

BUT those that are wise OR have been in the situation where they got stupid and spent way too much and learned from it, or have waited in line at a church for donated food - let's just say it gives you perspective that money can't buy. Sooo... once things are better you've learned to apprecite it and not only to be incredibly happy for it but also to focus on helping others to also improve their situation.

I describe myself as a 'frustrated philanthropist'. I want to help others more than I do now. I can occassionally donate food to our church and have given toys to those that need them when our son out grew them... but it would make me happier to be able to do more. And yea, being able to buy a decent home, driving a nicer car (I'd like a Lexus, not a Rolls or Mercedes). Being able to live 'comfortably' would be nice.

Yea... that'd make me REALLY happy...

Originally Posted by gogogo

Bill Gates something similar: "Money doesn't bring happiness. Now that I have 51 billion I am as much happy as I had 50 billion". Something along these lines.

DamageX you're 100% right.

todays society is based on competition. the less competition you have the more profit/money you'll make.
as John D. Rockefeller said : "Competition is a sin !" and he knew what he was talking about. the average people are programmed to compete. why ? 'cause already Caesar enjoyed watching gladiators, so do the big players today and everywhere.
money = freedom = happiness

Can anyone put a picture of that trumph...LOL just wanted to check is he happy?

Money can't buy happiness but its more comfortable to cry in a BMW than on a cycle.

To quote Warbucks, “making money was all I ever cared about. And I was ruthless to the people I had to climb over to get to the top. Because I’ve always believed one thing, you don’t have to be nice to the people you meet on the way up, if you’re not coming back down again” (the audience always gasps at that).

As we discover in the show, Warbucks, in spite of his riches and success, is missing something. Maybe he heard a great sermon by some Presbyterian minister there in NYC, but Warbucks knows his heart is missing something. He knows his riches, his success, his fame, cannot find him the happiness, the satisfaction his soul longs for. “It doesn’t matter how many Rembrandts or Duesenbergs you’ve got. If you’re all alone, if you’ve got no one to share your life with, you might as well be broke and back in Hell’s kitchen.”

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Originally Posted by Bryan

To quote Warbucks, “making money was all I ever cared about. And I was ruthless to the people I had to climb over to get to the top. Because I’ve always believed one thing, you don’t have to be nice to the people you meet on the way up, if you’re not coming back down again” (the audience always gasps at that).

As we discover in the show, Warbucks, in spite of his riches and success, is missing something. Maybe he heard a great sermon by some Presbyterian minister there in NYC, but Warbucks knows his heart is missing something. He knows his riches, his success, his fame, cannot find him the happiness, the satisfaction his soul longs for. “It doesn’t matter how many Rembrandts or Duesenbergs you’ve got. If you’re all alone, if you’ve got no one to share your life with, you might as well be broke and back in Hell’s kitchen.”

I take it the "Assuming you have other needs taken care of, like love and whatnot" part didn't stick with you?

Originally Posted by Bryan

To quote Warbucks, “making money was all I ever cared about. And I was ruthless to the people I had to climb over to get to the top. Because I’ve always believed one thing, you don’t have to be nice to the people you meet on the way up, if you’re not coming back down again” (the audience always gasps at that).

As we discover in the show, Warbucks, in spite of his riches and success, is missing something. Maybe he heard a great sermon by some Presbyterian minister there in NYC, but Warbucks knows his heart is missing something. He knows his riches, his success, his fame, cannot find him the happiness, the satisfaction his soul longs for. “It doesn’t matter how many Rembrandts or Duesenbergs you’ve got. If you’re all alone, if you’ve got no one to share your life with, you might as well be broke and back in Hell’s kitchen.”

You know something? When I was the one waiting in line for a food handout, I felt shame and self concious... but we still joked a bit and at the end of the process, it really made me happy that people cared enough to help us when we needed it. We're happy now - we're not struggling like we did once upon a time (and it really wasn't that long ago).

We were happy even when we didn't have much money but we were incredibly stressed. Adding money removes alot of that stress (and yes, does add another type - but in my opinion, I'd rather have the stress of 'how to I keep it going' and 'where do I invest it' vs 'will I have enough to pay rent' and 'do I have enough to buy food for this week')

A funny quote.

"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million" -Arnold Schwarzenegger

Ofcourse money can buy a lot of stuff including happiness, few exceptions - Love, Life & Respect.

Money doesn't bring happiness, the best things in life are still free.

Originally Posted by howard_hughes

Ofcourse money can buy a lot of stuff including happiness, few exceptions - Love, Life & Respect.

Money can buy love for 1 hour at a time

Originally Posted by Roparadise

Money can buy love for 1 hour at a time

Fie dollah, sucky sucky, love you long time!

Originally Posted by DamageX

Fie dollah, sucky sucky, love you long time!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExeDu7cC-vE

That bullshit line was made up by one of these people:

1) An anti social rich prick who had no friends in life.

2) A monk who lived in a fucking mountain all his life.

3) A broke idiot who never had enough money to enjoy life.

If you use money as a tool to get what you aim for in life, it will help you be happy. If you get obsessed with money and that's all you think about, then it will turn you into a soulless asshole and you will die alone. That's not money's fault though. It's all about you.

Money brings happiness. At the moment I am working hard in order to make money to finally be free from the life I currently have. My most important goals are to be independent, afford my own home, control my own faith(at least the money part), enjoy life, be myself(always happy and positive) and help my grandmother(she has never had much money or freedom in life) who has helped me so much.

I once read somewhere that 90%+ of your problems are one way or another related to money. For me that is 100% true.

I know that there will be always new goals and dreams, but at the moment the freedom that money offers would make me and my family very happy!

Originally Posted by David80

Money brings happiness. At the moment I am working hard in order to make money to finally be free from the life I currently have. My most important goals are to be independent, afford my own home, control my own faith(at least the money part), enjoy life, be myself(always happy and positive) and help my grandmother(she has never had much money or freedom in life) who has helped me so much.

I once read somewhere that 90%+ of your problems are one way or another related to money. For me that is 100% true.

I know that there will be always new goals and dreams, but at the moment the freedom that money offers would make me and my family very happy!

I hear ya... I've gone from piss poor, to financially independent, to broke-as-fuck again a couple of times. Rich is better.

I would have agreed with you partially in context until you mentioned religion.

Originally Posted by DamageX

Assuming you have other needs taken care of, like love and whatnot, money DOES bring happiness. The more money you have, the more freedom you enjoy, to do whatever the fuck you want. The more freedom you enjoy, the happier you are, as you don't have to worry about restrictions, be they of material or other nature. Don't know who said it but "I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better" seems spot on.

"Money doesn't bring happiness" is possibly the biggest crock of shit in history, right up there with religion. Must've been coined by some stinking rich people, in order to keep laborers happy with their low level of wealth, so they don't try to get rich too.

The lack of money is the root of all evil!

Anybody tells you money is the root of all evil doesn't fuckin' have any. They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the fuckin' smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby.
You want details? Fine. I drive a Ferrari 355 Cabriolet. What's up? I have a ridiculous house in the South Fork. I have every toy you could possibly imagine. And best of all, kids, I am liquid.
So, now that you know what's possible. Let me tell you what's required.
You are required to work your fucking ass off as internet marketer. We want winners here, not pikers. A piker walks at the bell. A piker asks how much vacation time you get in the first year. Vacation time? People come and work in IM industry for one reason: to become filthy rich. That's it. We're not here to make friends. We're not savin' the fuckin' manatees here, guys. You want vacation time? Go teach third grade, public school.

People that say money doesn't buy happiness is bullshit, have never actually been rich.

Money may not be everything but it is most of the things!

Originally Posted by Ricky Roma

Anybody tells you money is the root of all evil doesn't fuckin' have any. They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the fuckin' smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby.
You want details? Fine. I drive a Ferrari 355 Cabriolet. What's up? I have a ridiculous house in the South Fork. I have every toy you could possibly imagine. And best of all, kids, I am liquid.
So, now that you know what's possible. Let me tell you what's required.
You are required to work your fucking ass off as internet marketer. We want winners here, not pikers. A piker walks at the bell. A piker asks how much vacation time you get in the first year. Vacation time? People come and work in IM industry for one reason: to become filthy rich. That's it. We're not here to make friends. We're not savin' the fuckin' manatees here, guys. You want vacation time? Go teach third grade, public school.

The only thing I don't agree with you on 100% is the "work hard" part. You don't have to work hard. You have to be smart, work smarter and have others do as many of your tasks as possible, with you doing only the very essential parts, which require strategic thinking and creativity.

people say money never bring happiness just to satisfy themselves since they are not rich

I have 940 buck to deposit and that shit makes me dam well happy but I also feel for those less fortunate, in a perfect world I would wish 90 percent of the World would be Strong Middle Class, the rest 10 percent BHW

Originally Posted by bk071

HOLY SHIT!
cluck you is on, YAY!

Originally Posted by SilverSultan

I have 940 buck to deposit and that shit makes me dam well happy but I also feel for those less fortunate, in a perfect world I would wish 90 percent of the World would be Strong Middle Class, the rest 10 percent BHW

You do realize that the reason the middle class exists is because there 's a lower class to support it, yes?

Originally Posted by DamageX

Must've been coined by some stinking rich people, in order to keep laborers happy with their low level of wealth, so they don't try to get rich too.

Yeah, or maybe just some poor people who's cases were desperate so they just had to come up with that to feel a lil bit better about their state of things.

yes guys money is not happiness! But If you share your money with people who need it, then money will bring happiness!