John Paul DeJoria Quotes

We were what you would call a poor family, but we were rich in so many things. We did family things together. We always had dessert, even if it was just Jell-O. So, I never knew I was poor.

I grew up with nothing, and I know that I don't need anything to be happy. We were wearing second-hand clothing and eating leftovers, and I was so happy. Five-star hotels and private pick-ups hasn't changed that.

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

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

When I was growing up, we didn't have much money. What was important in my house was to have food on the table, be happy, and have our family.

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

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.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

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

To grow up under really simple circumstances, and to understand that certain things were ornamental... that made an impression on me as a child and is something I use.

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

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

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.

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Not everything is about money.

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.

How rich, how happy is he who lives in poverty! He lives his days in wisdom, and sleeps in peace. Only he can be really happy, only he is so always!

A small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.