Michael Davis Quotes

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

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'

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

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

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

The more we have the less we own.

A small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

I did everything I wanted to when I had nothing.

Thank you for making me nouveau riche.

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.

I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?

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.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

Material things don't matter.

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

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.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

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

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.