Ferran Adria Quotes

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

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.

I don't buy diamonds, I don't buy cars, but I enjoy travelling. I'm not a very possessive person as far as things go.

I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.

I don't own anything designer.

You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.

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 know I've been lucky, but I'm not very materialistic - I don't believe in collecting many unnecessary things and I'm not into girlie shopping.

When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That's how little I own.

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.

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

The time will come when mankind will begin to get away from the consciousness of needing so many material things. More security and peace will be found in the simple life.

So, make a real effort to avoid getting sucked into all the expensive lifestyle habits of typical Americans. Because if you do that, then people with the money will dictate what you do with your life.

People need things. I don't live a monk's existence, I'm a consumer, but I try to do it to the level that doesn't feel like there's an overabundance of something.

The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

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

I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of contemporary life.

Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff.

To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!

The modern girl is less concerned with everything being a brand name.

I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.

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.

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.