Marc Newson Quotes

I don't really shop a lot, just cause I'd rather not spend my money on clothes.

I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.

My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money.

I love magazines. It's such McNugget kind of information.

I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at the variety of books they do buy and the extent to which they are not the big bestsellers.

I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

I don't shop. I haven't shopped in about four years.

There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. 'The Times', 'Guardian', 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Daily Mail' were all regular fixtures on the coffee table. I used to enjoy reading 'The Times' editorial pages and the 'Daily Mail' sports pages.

I shop once in six months. My friends often point at my shoes to tell me that they've worn out. It's embarrassing, but it doesn't affect me too much. I shop when I have to.

I don't buy much. Almost buy nothing. I buy what I need, do it the easiest way possible.

Rather than earn money, it was Thoreau's idea to reduce his wants so that he would not need to buy anything. As he went around preaching this ingenious idea, the shopkeepers of Concord hoped he would drop dead.

Yeah, I guess I'm economical. Not because I try, but because I'm really not that interested in shoes.

The biggest shock when I lost it all was the realization that so much of my life had been out of my control. When I started to make the money back, I vowed that it would never happen again. I bought things only when I could afford them. There was no big mortgage, no cars on hire purchase. I remember buying a TR6 sports car for £6,000, and funnily enough it gave me more pleasure than the Porsche ever had.

Avoid the philosophy and excuse that yesterday's luxuries have become today's necessities. They aren't necessities unless we ourselves make them such. . . . It is essential for us to live within our means.

I drive old cars, all my Patagonia clothes are years and years old, I hardly have anything new. I try to lead a very simple life. I am not a consumer of anything. And I much prefer sleeping on somebody's floor than in a motel room.

A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.

Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.

Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.

My children, every time they ask me for something, I tell them to round their old stuff up.

I'm really not a person who consumes a lot. I don't have a sports car.

I can live well with what I have.I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more.

The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.

I don't go looking for somewhere to spend my money. You can step on a tube of toothpaste for a week, if you have to. I spend what I need to and give it away.

The amount of money that people spend on saving stuff, they try to feed you this idea that it's more important.

Our economy is based upon people wanting more; their happiness on wanting less.