A place for everything, everything in its place.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody’s buying far too many clothes.

We 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.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

All 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.

When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor’s office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don’t think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping.

Every day is a major balancing act that I have to figure out and coordinate.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

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

I won’t belong to any organization that would have me as a member.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

I don’t care about money.

If you can’t eat it, shoot it, or wear it, don’t bring it.

You should not build your customer service system on the premise that your organisation will never question the whims of your clients.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

I’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.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

When I retire I’m going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

I 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.

From the boys‘ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don’t keep buying just for the sake of it.

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

I write the paragraph, then I’m crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it up because sometimes it’s almost illegible, and if I wait, I might not be able to read it the next day.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

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

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

I’m pretty clean, hygienic and all that, but sometimes when I come home, I throw my coat over there, take one shoe off here, one shoe off there, but I’m not dirty.

I’m not very gifted for hairdos. I don’t like gel and all those products.

I’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.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

The more you know the less you need to say.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

When you say ‚control freak‘ and ‚OCD‘ and ‚organized,‘ that suggests someone who’s cold in nature, and I’m just not. Like, I’m really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don’t like to make big messes that would hurt people.

I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We’ve kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don’t need. I’m anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of black Levis and that’s it.

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.