I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.
Mark ZuckerbergThe greatest wealth is to live content with little.
PlatoTake the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.
Wayne DyerA place for everything, everything in its place.
Benjamin FranklinSome people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.
Joyce MeyerMaterial things are delightful, but they’re not important.
Richard BransonI’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.
Paul AusterIf you can’t eat it, shoot it, or wear it, don’t bring it.
Jim MattisWealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
EpictetusI don’t care about money.
Lady GagaThrough Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.
Dave GrohlI have rooms full of little dongly things and don’t want any more. Half the little dongly things I’ve got, I don’t even know what gizmo they’re for. More importantly, half the gizmos I’ve got, I don’t know where their little dongly thing is.
Douglas AdamsI remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.
DJ KhaledExpect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Alice WalkerI think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make – and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn’t quite work.
Vivienne WestwoodInstead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don’t keep buying just for the sake of it.
Vivienne WestwoodNothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
EpicurusThat government is best which governs least.
Henry David ThoreauWhat consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.
Jeff BezosCan anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?
Ralph Waldo EmersonI wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.
Henry David ThoreauI’m not very gifted for hairdos. I don’t like gel and all those products.
Karl LagerfeldI resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
Andrew CarnegieNo architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
John RuskinElegance is refusal.
Coco ChanelBuy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody’s buying far too many clothes.
Vivienne WestwoodEverything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert EinsteinSimple goes a long way.
Bad BunnyI’ve only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They’re all I need, and the rest I can do without.
Karl LagerfeldI’m frugal. I’m not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.
Vivienne WestwoodHe has the most who is most content with the least.
DiogenesI don’t spend too much time on my phone, laptop or television. However, I do occasionally watch documentaries and shows on streaming platforms.
Sunil ChhetriThat man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David ThoreauEvery increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John RuskinIt is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
DiogenesI don’t throw lavish parties or nothing like that – I just want a bed and a TV.
Bruno MarsWe are not the sum of our possessions.
George H. W. BushDo not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David ThoreauAll I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn’t need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
Paul AusterThe Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you’ll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don’t use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.
Wayne DyerA man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David ThoreauIt’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Bruce LeeManifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Lao TzuA little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
Eleanor RooseveltThe simplification of anything is always sensational.
Gilbert K. ChestertonMore and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.
Pope FrancisThe last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.
Wayne DyerThe more you know the less you need to say.
Jim RohnSimplify, simplify.
Henry David ThoreauI do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas JeffersonWe only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.
Wayne DyerI think it is a good thing to buy less and choose well – it’s good for the environment and to be fair it’s also good for me because my clothes are quite expensive.
Vivienne WestwoodOur life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau