Zac Posen Quotes

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

When the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him... a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

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

The older I get, the less I need. I wear the same jean shorts for the whole week. I'm not running to the store to get the latest bag.

I would much rather be asked, why I do not have one, than why I do have one.

Very early on in life, I decided the hell with it: material things weren't for me. Christmas would come, and other kids would have all these presents, and it wouldn't bother me a bit.

I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.

Other people have more than they need, I alone seem wanting.

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.

The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.

True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans.

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

First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

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

The older I get, the less I obsess about material stuff. In fact, stuff has become the enemy. There always seems to be more of it than I have storage in my house!

I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.

I'm not materialistic. I love clothes and all that stuff, but I don't need it to live.

I don't like possessions.