Mo Ibrahim Quotes

I wanted to see if I could be happy without a lot of stuff. And what I found out was, yeah, I really could.

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.

I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.

The more you own, the more you know you don't own.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.

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

I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me.

The simpler things are, the happier they are.

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

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

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!

Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.

I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.

Sometimes it's better to look at things than own them... owning means anxiety and lots of bags to carry around.

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

I don't like possessions.

True wealth is not measured by how much money you've got in the bank or how many toys you've got. Some of the happiest people in the world don't have a crying quarter, but they've got all the things that mean a lot to them.

I don't need much to be happy.

I want to keep having fun like I have done all my life.

I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.

The less I needed, the better I felt.