Money don't buy everything, It's true.

What it don't buy, I can't use.

-- Barrett Strong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3m-gOelA8g

Money, it's a gas.

-- Pink Floyd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_ofFa50LzY

Not required but it helps.

Money?...Money=death. If you love money to the stage that, you don't think of other things, life is short. Believe me. Ask Homer, how he struggled to pay back the debts to some financial companies, and still there are lot of unpaid. You go the finance company to borrow $36,000-55000, while your annual icome low about $25,000,(which is beyond your monthly cash inflow into your account), plus the interest charged, plus arears, paid on top, if you fail the exact date of your payment. I'm afraid that, the debt collection agency, may come and take your assets, to recover. "Interest free!!..one year freee, no charge!!"...no it's not free. American express give 19% pa. (ok stop here Homer).

Ha! If money were essential I'd be a miserable mofo...

Brings security and laxury, not happiness. Very helpful though!

Another false idol-money,especially in todays credit economy has become a shell game.People kill and die for pieces of paper or electronic data that has NO real value other than what we all agree to pretend it has. You don't agree? Try eating money when there's no food,or burning it to keep warm when there's no other heat source.See if it will heal your wounds when there's no doctor to take it.

Money's not essential for happiness but it's kind of difficult to get by without it. The first thing that should be noted here is that wealth really isn't money. Wealth consists of real assets like land and equipment, not money, which is merely a tool that's used to exchange goods. Having wealth means owning lots of stuff. Having goods means you have the ability to produce capital to subsist and produce more wealth. Money is useless unless you can exchange it with somebody. Living off a cash flow is one thing: driving a nice car, owning two mortgages, buying things on credit, and owning a good health insurance policy doesn't make you wealthy per se. Cut that flow of cash and you'll lose any pretense of having a lot of money. True happiness shouldn't come from something so fleeting. So what to do? The key to solid financial management is to stay out of debt and keep out of it. Living within your means prevents a lot of unnecessary problems. Try to aim for ownership of tangible assets that's free of debt. I work in real estate, but I detest these commercials on TV that are constantly plugging second mortgages on homes. It makes sense not to borrow money on a depreciating asset--here's a tip, even land and homes can become a depreciating asset. The Great Depression in the 1930's saw land prices go down in some instances from $5000 an acre to $2 a acre. The value of land, outside of any building on it, depends largely on someone's willingness to buy it. Today there's a bubble in the market as well. To top it off, we as a nation are living in way too much debt: the American consumer is in debt, the federal government is in debt, state and local governments are in debt. All of this is causing the US dollar to lose it's purchasing power at a steady rate. Those of us living in debt are going to have a harder time paying off the mortgage at the rate things are going. That's why materialism isn't truly the good life. When the Great Depression began, the story goes that people were throwing themselves off buildings because they lost it all. Be ambitious, but don't live your life for the pursuit of money, invest wisely, and you'll reap rewards.

Money is overrated. It does help to pay the bills but is not essential for happiness. It is essential to live a certain lifestyle whatever that may be. Many people devote every amount of their energy to the mighty dollar and end up very lonely.

money is no good. it wont get you anything you get to keep. it's good to buy beer with, that's about it.

I have known people who won the lottery that were still as miserable as ever, so toss out the whole money = happiness idea.

You could be the richest person in the world.....but be the unhappiest!!!!!

As a famous saying goes, Money does not buy happiness. It is essential to have money to live, but don't let it take over your life.

Well, yes and no. Money can buy you things that you want (which could make you happy) but it can't buy everything. Perhaps essential isn't the best word, yet money is never a bad thing to have around.

It sure doesn't hurt to have some, but having a pot full isn't an absolute essential for happiness. I've been very poor and reasonably well off and most things in between, and it is clear to me that having money is way better than not having it. Being possessed by its acquisition can be a cause of considerable unhappiness.

The love of money is the root to all kinds of evil. Money doesn't make me happy, but lack of it can make me unhappy.

Studies have shown your happiness level decreases substantially if you don't have enough money to meet basic survival needs. After those needs are met, money doesn't much have an effect on happiness. Go figure. I sure think it'd be nice to live life by doing whatever interested or concerned me at the moment though, never having money as a concern.

I understand that money cannot buy love or happiness, but I'm too damn tired of not having any, so I'd rather take my chances WITH it than without. My sister once told me, Money won't make you happy. And I responded with, Well, NOT having it hasn't made me very happy, either, so I think I'll have a go at the former.

Having lots of money may not be essential but having enough that you don't have to worry about being homeless and hungry is.

My observation is this. People who were born rich and are still rich and have always had everything they wanted their whole life won't have money make them happy. The rags to riches type seem to appreciate what they have more. I have a friend who's father is a millionaire who also wants to sue me because I breached a so-called oral agreement on an auto sale.

It is needed to survive in life, but it is not the key to true happiness.

Who doesn't love money? It's the root of all evil in this world, but at the same time it makes the world go round making the world a very interesting place. Money gives you freedom and freedom is not to be confused with happiness.

Obviously money is enjoyable- even the most pious among us has to admit that. But it doesn't even compare to loved ones. Money can't can't complete you.

Some people need more and some need less to maintain what they see as a comfortable standard of living and this for me is neccesary for contentment but happiness seems to take something a little more. I myself have gotten slightly poorer recently but I'm actually happier then I've ever been. The ability to be satisfied with what you've got is what's really essential to happiness.

Just so long as you've got enough to go on, with the ability to splurge on occasion and be assured that you won't have to worry about your future financially, then it's good. Stuggling to pay the bills certainly isn't happy, but the celebrities with more money they could ever spend aren't always happy, either.

I know it is conventional to rate it a one but that is not realistic. You need a certain amount; poverty helps no one be happy, unless you are saint or an ascetic, and I'm certainly neither. It does seem that the more money you have, the more you worry about it. Everything in moderation, even greed.