Understanding the concept..............

 

..........................................of enough.

The perfect level of wealth is the one you’re content with.

-Ben Carlson

Some truth here....................

 

He is a powerful figure, but he is also a vehicle for the Normals, at home and abroad, who have finally had enough.

-Glenn Reynolds

Enough..........................

 ...................................yes, you are.

Enough..................

 At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history.  Heller responds,“Yes, but I have something he will never have — ENOUGH.”

-as culled from here

Be wary of bargains................

“It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.” 

-John Ruskin

Enough.......................

“He has his wish, whose wish can be to have what is enough.” 

-Cleanthes

cartoon via

Just enough.............................

"As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists."
-Albert Einstein

Consider.............................

Often, it is not enough to embrace limitations.  Instead, consider creating limitations.

Why?  Because it forces one to consider cost.  Not just monetary, but also spatial, cognitive, and practical as well.  It forces one to ask tough questions about real need versus desire.

-Patrick Rhone,  Enough

When a recommendation.............

...............comes from both Kurt Harden and Nicholas Bate, then action usually follows.  In this case, the downloading of Patrick Rhone's Enough.   May I suggest you do the same?  From James Shelly's Forward:

     Patrick Rhone is one of the new voices prompting us to rethink this old juxtaposition of attitudes.  He stakes out a place between the absolutisms of unbridled consumption on one side and monastic luddism on the other.  In this new sacred middle ground he asks us to reconsider everything in light of one simple value:  enough.  

I've always been a fan of the sacred middle.  Looking forward to finishing the book.  More later, I'm sure.