Nate Berkus Quotes

Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.

I don't shop as much as I find.

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.

My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money.

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

I don't spend on expensive brands. I don't need foreign holidays.

I had no money. I just figured out hustles to get by, like maybe selling my clothes. I wanted to travel around and be broke and live in sketchy apartments.

I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.

It was a matter of not living lavishly but enjoying what you had, growing things with your hands, working hard, but not being tied to a nine-to-five job, and generally feeling that there's more to life than money.

I try to keep the more uninteresting stuff to a minimum, unless I'm really broke.

The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

I don't shop.

I'm fine with just a simple life.

I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture.

Economy is half the battle in life, but it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

Unless you absolutely have got to do it, don’t buy anything new.

If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.

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

Save one-third, live on one-third, and give away one-third

Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.

You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

Frugality is misery in disguise.