The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.
It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Peace begins with a smile.
Eating in a manner which is too elaborate is a source of injustice, since through such eating things are desired which need unjust trading or cooking.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.
Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.
The best strategy is always to be very strong.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form.
Don't make any of your plotting decisions out of fear or desperation. Keep the story and the characters simple.
If you want people to do something, make it easy.
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing, layout, processes, and procedures.
You don't need to know it all. You just need to understand the key concepts.
Take your profit first, and manage the rest. It's that simple.
Go for a business that any idiot can run — because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
