Ferran Adria Quotes

Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle.

If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.

I don't live lavishly, so it's not like I have 20 assistants and travel privately and shop every day.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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

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

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

But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don't think we've lost that mind-set. We don't have a bowling alley in our basement. We don't have houses on the beach and one in New York and one in L.A.

My material life is simple.

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

A small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

Don't run after shows and money.

I haven't gone hillbilly rich, where you spend everything you have.

I live below my means. I think that's a good discipline because you never can tell.

I'm O.K. having a comfortable life. I don't have to live in a mansion and drive Aston Martins or Ferraris.

I'm not a material guy, so I don't need to surround myself with wealth.

I don't need to amass a ton of wealth for myself.

I don't care about having a fancy car. I don't have a lot of the wants and needs that a lot of people have where I would need to make a $1 million a fight.

Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.

Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.

With all my work, I have not more, with my shares in the bank and the Academy, than twelve or thirteen thousand reales a year, and with all this, I am as contented as the happiest man on earth.

I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.

I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.

I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?

I am fortunate to have enough money not to have to worry about the necessities of life. Beyond that, I try to think about money as little as possible.