Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I don't need a whole lot.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

My material life is simple.

You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

I drive one car. I own one house. That's enough for me.

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

I do quite well for myself, but I live a simple life.

I'm not a big consumer at all. I'm very happy with enough.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

I'm happy without money.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

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

I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

Me, I don't need money.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

I prefer to stay poor.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

What would I do with money? I have enough for my needs. I don't want any more. If I had a lot, I would have to care for it, worry about it.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

He chose to be rich by making his wants few, and supplying them himself.