A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Material things are delightful, but they’re not important.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

Some 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.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

I need physics more than friends.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

Be content to seem what you really are.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

God always takes the simplest way.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours‘ writing. Nothing.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

I don’t mean to be cocky, but if I’m never on TV again, if I never make another dollar, I am proud. I did what I wanted to do.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

I don’t throw lavish parties or nothing like that – I just want a bed and a TV.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

I 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.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Money ain’t everything.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Simplify, simplify.