Jodi Balfour Quotes

I'm not a guy who's about the material things.

I don't need five Ferraris in my garage to feel great; that's not what matters to me.

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

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

We are not the sum of our possessions.

The more we have the less we own.

Very early on in life, I decided the hell with it: material things weren't for me. Christmas would come, and other kids would have all these presents, and it wouldn't bother me a bit.

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 grew up with very little - so material things have never been that important for me.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

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

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

I'm someone who'd never base how happy I am on how much money I have, or how good a restaurant is because of how posh it is.

I am totally unattached to material items.

Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.

The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

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

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

I am not trying to say that I am poor and that I don't like beautiful things. But I don't like luxury for luxury sake or in the sense of showing off luxury.

Material things don't matter.

We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.

The older I get, the less I need. I wear the same jean shorts for the whole week. I'm not running to the store to get the latest bag.

I would much rather be asked, why I do not have one, than why I do have one.

He chose to be rich by making his wants few, and supplying them himself.