Simplicity
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- Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
- Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
- Owning less is great. Wanting less is better.
- Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Really true, good, and great things are always simple.
- Remember this, — that very little is needed to make a happy life.
- Simplicity before understanding complexity is ignorance. Simplicity after understanding complexity is genius.
- Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.
- Simplicity compounds. Complexity zeros out.
- Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
- Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Simplicity, of all things, is the hardest to be copied.
- Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail... Simplify, simplify.
- Take a simple idea and take it seriously. Simple ideas have been the source of most human success.
- That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
- The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
- The best techniques are the simple ones executed right.
- The better you understand something, the more simply you can express it.
- The business schools reward difficult complex behaviour more than simple behaviour, but simple behaviour is more effective.
- The deepest truths are the simplest and the most common.
- The flower that we do not pluck is the only one that never loses its beauty or its fragrance.
- The greatest truths are the simplest; and so are the greatest men.
- The greatest wealth isn’t having everything you want. It’s realizing how little you actually need.
- The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
- The more things you have, the more things you have to manage. Simplicity isn’t merely cheaper, it’s easier.
- The more we count the blessings we have, the less we crave the luxuries we haven't.
- The more we say yes, the more complex life gets.
- The relentless elimination of noise creates a path to innovation. Clear the unnecessary and watch new ideas bloom.
- The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed — it is a process of elimination.
- The shortest road to riches lies through contempt of riches.
- The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.
- There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
- There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
- There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
- They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer — not an easy answer — but simple.
- To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
- To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.
- Train your body, calm your mind, be kind to people, invest long-term, and keep life simple. Most people won’t, but you can.
- Troubles spring from idleness, and grievous toils from needless ease.
- We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.