Words that inspire my inner thoughts

Quotes by authors, poets, comedians, public figures etc. that embody how I work and what I understand Tech Minimalism to be about.

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

– Woody Gutherie

Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.

– William Feather

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

– Warren Buffett

Always take the high road, it's far less crowded.

– Warren Buffett

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

– Warren Buffett

How difficult it is to be simple.

– Vincent van Gogh

Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.

– Valery Satterwhite

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

Happiness is very simple and minimal.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

– Sylvia Plath

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

– Steve Wozniak

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.

– Sir Joshua Reynolds

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?.

– Sidney Madwed

Design is not about what you see, but about what you don't see.

The simplest things are often the truest.

– Richard Bach

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

– Richard Bach

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional, wait until you hire an amateur.

Quick fixes are not real fixes.

– Randy Milanovic

The best advertising is done by satisfied customers.

– Philip Kotler

Design is so simple. That’s why it’s so complicated..

Impossible is just an opinion.

– Paulo Coelho

Be Yourself. Everyone else is already taken.

– Oscar Wilde

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

– Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

– Oscar Wilde

Good work ain't cheap. Cheap work ain't good.

– Norman Keith Collins

It always seems impossible until it's done.

– Nelson Mandela

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

– Natalie Babbitt

The richest persons are those who give most in service to others.

– Napoleon Hill

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.

– Mary Oliver

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

– Marthe Troly-Curtin

Honesty is the best policy when there is money in it.

The secret to getting ahead is getting started.

Less is more.

– Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

– Leonardo da Vinci

He who doesn't trust enough, will not be trusted.

The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

– Julian Casablancas

Quality is never an accident, it is always the result of intelligent effort.

– John Ruskin

Style is a simple way of saying very complicated things.

– Jean Cocteau

People forget how fast you did a job, they remember how well you did it.

– James Howard Newton

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

– Hosea Ballou

In all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

– Henry David Thoreau

Thought, not money, is the real business capital.

– Harvey Firestone

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

– Harvey Firestone

Never use a long word where a short one will do.

– George Orwell

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

– Florence Scovel Shinn

Good design should be honest.

– Ferdinand Porsche

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

– Ernest Hemingway

If you pay peanuts, you will get monkeys.

– English proverb

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

– Edward Coke

Good design is as little design as possible.

– Dieter Rams

Anything simple always interests me.

– David Hockney

Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.

– Craig Bruce

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

The complex develops out of the simple.

– Colin Wilson

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

– Coco Chanel

Simplicity is the essence of happiness.

– Cedric Bledsoe

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

There is no more B2B or B2C: It’s Human to Human, H2H.

– Bryan Kramer

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

– Branch Rickey

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

– Aristotle Onassis

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

No one has ever become poor by giving.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

– Alfred Montapert

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

– Alexander Pope

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

– Albert Einstein

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

– Albert Einstein

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