Quotes about Simplicity

I don't understand why everyone fights for power, money, fame.

'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Men invent means and methods of coming at God's love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that love, and it seems like a world of trouble to bring oneself into the consciousness of God's presence. Yet it might be so simple. Is it not quicker and easier just to do our common business wholly for the love of him?

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.

Success is not important to me, nor are power or money. If the script feels good, then I'm in. It's that simple.

Hard times make for simple minds.