Everyone needs a certain amount of money... by Gregg Easterbrook

Writer Author Money journalist Happiness

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Other quotes by Gregg Easterbrook

Mistakes

I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Today World Life People

But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Acting

Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Mistake World

But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.

- Gregg Easterbrook

People

I think that might have been an element in it, and people have asked me that very thing. Remember, Disney is the majority shareholder, but it is not an operating division of Disney.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Controversy Writing Writer

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

- Gregg Easterbrook

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