i'm not obsessed with money....i enjoy the pleasures of money....money pays the mortgage, the car note, the food bill, etc...i don't understand how people underestimate the importance of money. if i don't work, i don't eat and i don't have a place to sleep, right????? if i want "nice" things, i need extra/more money, right???
209808
You definitely need money to satisfy your needs so the actual statement should be "Money alone cannot make one happy".\n\nThe point to be noted is we shouldn't be obsessed for money and forget other important things in your life like your daughter's birthday.
221480
i think success is doing what you like to do and being able to support yourself on it. i make a living doing my favorite thing, playing music. (technically, thats my second favorite thing to do, lol). i teach guitar lessons, and play in a band and do recordings. i'm not looking to be rich, though i dont think i'd turn it down. i just want to be able to pay my mortgage and take care of my girlfriend as best i can by doing what i like to do. (and she's doing really well, it wouldnt surprise me if she makes more than i do in a few years.)
528017
Money seems to be tight this year, and you always want to give a loved one something nice, and while holiday shopping you really don't think about receiving. Or I don't anyway. So, if someone took the time to pick out something for me based on my likes and it was cheap, I would love it more than a $50 gift certificate. Why? Because they actually pay attention to me, and know me well enough to make me smile with their gift. And that is my intention for every one on my list. So, in answer to your question; yes, I think it is the thought that counts. Although some people who have the money to lavish there loved ones with gifts, they also put thought into what they buy, they just have the money to reach higher. They shouldn't be looked down upon for that, us less advantaged people just wish we could do that.  Expensive doesn't mean less thought. Sometimes it could even mean more thought. One Christmas, all I wanted was a guitar, very pricey, and I knew that my mom couldn't afford, so I never asked. Everything in me was screaming with desire: have to play a guitar, want a guitar. My mom knew that, and she really surprised me when I woke up and there was one setting under the tree with a bow on it. It was the most precious gift I got because it came right from her heart. \nThe meaning of 'it's the thought that counts' is just as it reads, you put a lot of thought into any gift, and it counts.
144764
sometimes we need money, but for me money is not everything because there is several think more important then money, like love, friendship ,trust , humanity
657390
that's how i feel.  i can be unhappy and broke or unhappy and rich so why not take the latter.  i can go shopping and make myself feel better for a few if i got money. haha.  or heck, maybe i could even figure out how to do postitive things with my money and find true happiness!
196486
its kinda like play now pay later mind set. but inorder to have the fruits of life it takes money. you can not eat w/ out money. sure you can plant and grow your own food. how you going to get the seeds ? how you going to get to the market to sell your goods ? takes money to make money. takes money to live.
159619
Money makes you comfortable, provides a quality living environment, and helps you sleep easy at night.  It doesn't guarantee happiness.  Happiness (to me) is derived from your relationships with those closest to you and the enjoyment of life's simple pleasures.  Motorcycle riding on a perfect day, laughter, romance, sunsets, feeling good health and helping others.
643273
Money is what makes life complicated, people think that because another person does not have as much money as they "should" that they are worthless. Many people in this world let money go to their heads, and it turns them into a horrible person. Personally, my family is what makes my life really great. Money will come and go, but family lasts forever. Besides, when we die what goes on our headstone? How much money was in our wallets, or our family name?
587577
Here's a few pointers on "rich people".\n\nA few of them were given the money and have never worked a day in their life. They were born rich and have lived a life of luxury. The minute that they take their eyes OFF of holding onto all that money.....it will begin to slip away. It is VERY expensive to live a life of luxury....when you don't work. You depend on investments for your income and the road to the poor-house is LITTERED with people who let someone ELSE take care of their money. So they can't trust many people. They probably spend money like CRAZY......but also give a lot of money away to charities of MANY types...because giving money away is VERY COOL with really rich people. They constantly BRAG about their favorite charities and all of the good things that they do. Taxes are VERY, VERY expensive to rich people who do not work. Imagine making 10% on your money in an investment ....and then having 50% eaten up in income, sales, usage, property, etc taxes!!!! You would be concerned, TOO. \nWhatever you WOULD have had in the bank as income is cut by more than HALF.\n\nThe other type of rich person WORKS for his/her money. They are either SMARTER than most of us or work WAYYYYY harder than most of us. So, when they get a tax "bill" for 50% of their money they have to work HARDER and that makes them upset!!!! It makes YOU upset, too.....when lots of your money goes to the government, doesn't it???\n\nOn top of all of that.....the government has NEVER been the most frugal "charity" out there. If you want to help people it is usually better to support local charities that know how to distribute the help, right??? Rich people who pay LOTS of taxes have a bigger say and a bigger complaint about how POORLY their tax dollars are spent. If you pay $10,000 in taxes you should be very upset. If you paid $100,000-$1,000,000 in taxes every year wouldn't you be MORE upset???!!! Even if you had lots more money left you'd be concerned that your money was being "wasted"......that would be NORMAL... EXPECTED.\n\nMost rich people find it a FULL-TIME JOB to hold onto the money they work SO HARD FOR. \n\nIt's not our/your money.\n\n\nAnd why would YOU complain about something that the rich do, anyway. If you save up your money and get a good education you can join their club and report on their problems from the "inside".
348769
The common conception is that stingy people are that way because they have no money - because they have to be.  Some of the cheapest people you'll ever meet are rich folks though so in reality it can go either way.  At first it doesn't seem to make sense that a rich person would be stingy but then you have to figure there's a reason they are rich in the first place.  They probably didn't get there by being casual about money.
24991
Money makes the world go around. If it wasn't for money, the place we call home would probably be 50% better then what we live in today. As for myself, I am a soldier of the U.S. army national guard. IV been to Iraq and back and seen how terrible it was over there. And the one reason that place looks like it does is because of lack of...you guessed it. MONEY. I live in an apartment right now with no furniture, nor food, TV, ect. I sleep on an air mattress and I have my laptop with wireless. I am waiting on my re-sign up bonus in a week or 2 to buy the things I need to get ahead again. Couch, TV, phone, ect. and while I sit here with no money yet, I wonder myself "what the hell do all these people really do with their money, all these rich people who just blow it all away because they can" they don’t think about the people who really need it and would put it to good use. Like I said before, i am a soldier of America, and most soldiers who sign up for the army don’t have money so they see it as a way out, a way to get ahead. And they go off and fight a war for people, allot of people, who couldn't give a care in the world. Don’t get me wrong there are also allot of those who really support us troops. But if you think about it, it’s the poor fighting the poor. Simply put. As for me, I don’t really know what people do with their money. But I know he who has a lot will become greedy, and what he already has, he will not be satisfied with. It’s a shame that nowadays it seems you have to have money just to have friends, a love, ect. When I was in school I never had any friends because I was considered low class or poor because my mom didn’t have a job and could buy the things I needed or wanted. Money is everything nowadays. And if you have enough of it, heh, you'd almost be able to play god, you could get away with murder it you had enough money. The world is headed in the wrong direction, and it was headed there ever before it came to be. That’s the way I see it!
585959
Money what is that. I have none.. But than I don't have anybody that likes me for me. Don't own anything but a pc. When I did have the $$$ everybody was coming around. So my answer why do we love money. Me myself it buys me friendship, happies, gas for my car so I can go shopping. I play the lottery. I don't want to hit it big. If I had a choice between 10 million or 1 million I take the one million. To make ME happy for the rest of my life.
358516
What does receiving a lot of money have to do with finding someone to share your life with? Money shouldn't be the object that finds you someone. I would start my search by hiding the money!
37909
i would say that getting a job and not getting in debt would be more important. i mean, once you get in debt the interest just keeps going up and up and it'll really get to you sometime. but if you can find a job that will let you run track too, go for it.
450077
I don't think money can buy you happiness, but it can give you peace of mind, regarding bills, and being able to buy what you need. \nAs long a you are a good person to start, this will not change you, I would make you a better person, because if it was me, I would be able to help the people that need money for food shelter, and so forth. \nI like to help people, so I would first do for my family, save money, put it in the bank. Then I would help those that are less fortunate. As long as you spread your wealth, you will never go wrong. When the trouble start is when you become a person that thinks that you are better than others for the money you have.\nI hope you win the lottery, that way you will be able to at least relax on your bills, and you sound to have a good heart, so I think you will the one to help others.\nGood luck, play the lottery, if you don't play at least 1.00 you will never know.
304679
Wealth doesn't make people happy. It usually makes them possessive, cranky, avaricious, greedier, mean, nasty, stressed, etc., because all they can think about is making more money and protecting the money that they already have.
647384
Well, I can see how you would believe that, but I have an inside track on something that has nothing to do with money.  I've felt the hand of God in my life.  I'm poor.  I've seen His miracles touch the lives of those around me.  I've heard His voice call to me from a distance and heard His voice whisper to me from close to me.  I know there is a God because I have felt Him in the inner most part of my being.  Doesn't matter who does what with money.  I have no money (save the less than $100 in my checking account), and I can still testify to the fact that there is a God that cares for me regardless of any business side to any religion.