Marie Kondo Quotes

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

I don't want my life to be about a house and a car.

Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.

I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am.

I kind of had my life planned out for me. I'd be married at some point, have, you know, 1.5 children, and be a principal possibly one day. But I think that that was kind of my problem. I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life.

Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences.

I don't live to work; I work to live.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Markets can't think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.

Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.

Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.

Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.

I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.