It has been said that “luxury is an attitude” and there is no doubt that those who live a luxurious life often enjoy great benefits. While some may view luxury as something frivolous, it doesn’t have to be. There are many wealthy entrepreneurs out there who became successful by embracing luxury and creating products and services that provide value to their clients. In this blog post, we will take a look at some of the most inspiring quotes about luxury from these successful entrepreneurs.
1. Possibility is not a luxury — it is as crucial as bread.
2. The Anti–Semiten. Why don’t they ever learn? Why does God permit it?’ Roth sneered. ‘God is a luxury I don’t give myself. — Norman Mailer
3. Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich. — Oscar Wilde
4. Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility. — Tim Ferriss
5. Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it. — Ted Morgan
6. For me, true luxury can be caviar or a day with no meetings, no appointments and no schedule. — Michael Kors
7. We don’t have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it’s important to be with our family and friends. — Sara Blakely
8. My feeling on therapy is it’s a luxury, and if you’re fortunate enough to get some smart people to talk to about life, then that’s fortunate and you should go for it. — Matthew Perry
9. Most people think that I am too optimistic, but my optimism is based on the thought that negative thinking is a luxury that we can’t afford. — Yoko Ono
10. O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven’s decree! — Oliver Goldsmith
11. My feeling on therapy is it’s a luxury, and if you’re fortunate enough to get some smart people to talk to about life, then that’s fortunate and you should go for it. — Matthew Perry
12. The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world. — Napoleon
13. I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, ‘I’ve made it.’ — Zaha Hadid
14. Blest hour! It was a luxury––to be! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
15. If you cannot afford yourself any luxuries for the time being, at least offer yourself the one priceless luxury no one can take away from you–your time — lauren klarfeld
16. To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn’t hurt. — Olivia Newton–John
17. For me, luxury is intelligence and quality. I don’t see a lot of intelligence and quality in luxury when it’s used to make fast, big money. — Philippe Starck
18. We no longer have the luxury of spending our energy on anything that does not lead us and our families to Christ. — Sheri Dew
19. The future is the most expensive luxury in the world. — Thornton Wilder
20. To me, my brand is luxury, it’s art, it’s women, it’s raw, it’s urban. — Theophilus London
21. Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow. — Paul Gauguin
22. The compensation for a death sentence is the knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned. — Vladimir Nabokov
23. Rules are for people with the luxury of time. — Renee Carlino, Wish You Were Here
24. I’ve had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I’ve spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses. — Tiger Woods
25. Oh, the luxury of lying in the fern night and the grass night and the night of the susurrant, slumbrous voices weaving the night together. — Ray Bradbury
26. Delay, says Dr. Manner, is a luxury which people with right–now cancers cannot afford. — Paul Harvey
27. Although I really like the people I travel with, family is just different, and having them around at all times is a really nice thing–and a luxury. — Nick Jonas
28. A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. — Walter Bagehot
29. The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space it’s through time. — Nancy Gibbs
30. When you dance you can enjoy the luxury of being you. — Paulo Coelho
31. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. — Martin Luther King
32. The luxury to drink from the wisdom of God and ability to connect with the heavens in prayer gives birth to a desire to get the job done… — Stanley Kujokera
33. Blest hour! It was a luxury––to be! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
34. Although I really like the people I travel with, family is just different, and having them around at all times is a really nice thing–and a luxury. — Nick Jonas
35. A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding. — Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
36. ‘pride is the luxury of the strong”.’ — Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear
37. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
38. Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They’re a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated. — Nick Cave
39. It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness. — Sheryl Sandberg
40. When you dance you can enjoy the luxury of being you. — Paulo Coelho
41. Feel body as luxury––as a bird feels when shooting through the air, and as a child does always––is health — Paramahansa Yogananda
42. Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. — Woodrow Wilson
43. I think if everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionaries and brilliant. — Neil Degrasse Tyson
44. We no longer have the luxury of spending our energy on anything that does not lead us and our families to Christ. — Sheri Dew
45. Are you sure self–pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack? — Stephen King
46. Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization. — Will Durant
47. Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. — Tennessee Williams
48. What they liked in things they called luxury was only the money behind them — they loved wealth before they loved life.
49. It is a luxury to be understood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
50. To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury…. — Richard Hofstadter, Anti–Intellectualism in American Life
Luxury is something that everyone should experience at least once in their lifetime, and these quotes have inspired us to do just that. Whether it’s a lavish vacation, a stunning piece of jewelry, or something as simple as a day of pampering, luxury can be achieved in many different ways. Life is too short to not enjoy the finer things, so don’t forget to indulge in a little luxury every now and again.