Richard Stallman Quotes

Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.

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.

If you live below your means, you can turn down stuff all the time.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.

I suppose in the back of my mind I was always one of those guys who had a disdain for money. It had a value if you wanted to buy something, but if you didn't want to buy something, you didn't need it.

I live way below my means.

There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.

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

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

I don't shop. I haven't shopped in about four years.

I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a taste for an elaborate home, fancy cars, and other luxuries.

Don't identify yourself with labels and brands and have to buy every cute thing you see. Invest in the things that will grow in equity.

I live below my means. I think that's a good discipline because you never can tell.

I shop once in six months. My friends often point at my shoes to tell me that they've worn out. It's embarrassing, but it doesn't affect me too much. I shop when I have to.

I'm not really worried about the flashy stuff. I don't got chains and cars. I spend what I need to spend. It doesn't faze me.

I'm not a very materialistic person.

Being a cheap bastard now means so much more freedom and choices later.

I don't care about having a fancy car. I don't have a lot of the wants and needs that a lot of people have where I would need to make a $1 million a fight.

Spend and be free, but make no waste.

I live below my means because it makes what I do seem less like a job and more like a passion.

There’s this idea that somehow you’ve got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, they’d get a chance to think about what they wanted; what they really liked.

I always like to keep the budget as small as possible just to have the most freedom.