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

We are not the sum of our possessions.

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.

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

I love to clean.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

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

I don’t care about money.

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

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

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

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

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

I 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.

Elegance is refusal.

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.

Simple goes a long way.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

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 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.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

The 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.

That government is best which governs least.

I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don’t fancy having so much staff now.

The more you know the less you need to say.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth’s treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

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.

I personally have stopped flying. I have stopped eating meat and dairy.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture – imagine this – where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

What I’m always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.

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.

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

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

The only meat I eat is from animals I’ve killed myself.

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

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

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

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.

I have a garden in my backyard that’s completely organic, which I’m very proud of.

I wish you didn’t have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.

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

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

I’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.

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

Take 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.

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.

Simplify, simplify.

I don’t spend too much time on my phone, laptop or television. However, I do occasionally watch documentaries and shows on streaming platforms.

I 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.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

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

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

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

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.