The simplification of anything is always sensational.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

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

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

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

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

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

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 too many clothes, I have too many options.

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

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

It takes me about two hours to run into Target. People always want a picture. They hem and haw, and they can’t spit the words out, so they waste about five minutes of my time just standing there getting ready for a picture. Just do it!

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

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

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.

I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

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

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

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

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

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

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

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We’ve done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it’s much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it’s not only easier to use but more efficient.

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.

Simplify, simplify.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

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

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

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

I believe that every one of us has a gift. And I believe that mine is the ability to take the complex and make it simple.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

Delay is preferable to error.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

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

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.

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

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.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

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.

We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

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.

With the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.

Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Look at the Chandra Levy case. It’s become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they’re being prosecutors. They’re judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c’mon, that’s ridiculous. But they’re doing it.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.