Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

I'm not so in love with material things that I'll do anything for money. That allows me the luxury of doing things of value.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

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.

My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.

How much does one person need to live? I've never needed or wanted that much.

Don't run after shows and money.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle.

I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle.

Truly a man does not live by bread alone. A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.

Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.

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

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

I don't have to be a 'gazillionaire;' what's important to me is to just being able to work.

I don't make decisions based on money.

Me, I don't need money.

Without money honor is merely a disease.

Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless.

With the computer and stuff, the difference between a rich guy and a poor guy, to me, is nothing. Because I don't like big houses, I don't drive a car, so you know, I just live in a small apartment and I have my computer, which is really cool.

Not everything is for sale; not everything is about money.

I've never worked to make money. I understand we've got to eat and all that, but I never said I want to be a multimillionaire or a billionaire. To me, that's of no significance. I work to have the accomplishment.

You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

Don't sit and wish for some ideal; the grass is not always greener with the big house and cars and artwork.

Man cannot maintain his morals when he has no ordinary means of living.