Jean Chatzky Quotes

The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so I'm able to do a good job with what is in front of me.

I don't put the focus on things that don't matter.

As I've gotten older, I've gotten simpler - my level of aspiration has actually gone down and down. But my level of impact has gone up and up.

After I had money, I realized about all that all the things I thought I wanted that I don't need a lot of stuff. If there's anything I get excited by, it's a nice car.

I have only one life, and I can't do all. If I do one thing well, I'm happy.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.

You get the most out of what you need the least.

If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.

God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives--DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

Less is more.

A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.

The more you own, the more you know you don't own.

When I look around, I begin to understand what Socrates meant when he said, 'How much there is in the world I do not want.'

To me, the simplest things can have the highest value.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.

The less you have, the more you enjoy.

I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

Life is short, so I'm knowing exactly where I'm putting my time. I don't want to do things that I don't have to do.

Most people in business and within their personal lives move towards complexity. More To Dos. More projects. More products. More meetings. More possessions. More goals. The best - I suggest to you - move in the opposite direction.

I don't know what happened, but I lost the desire to acquire more things. It's very peaceful to have lost that desire.

For me, keeping it simple is the best way to live life, to not complicate things, to sort of keep things in perspective.