Burt Shavitz Quotes

A good day is when no one shows up, and you don't have to go anywhere.

You can only punish your body so long before you're stuck with a horrendous inability to do things you'd previously been able to do.

I've got everything I need: a nice piece of land with hawks and owls and incredible sunsets, and the good will of my neighbors.

What do I need it for, millions of dollars? It just sounds like problems with the IRS to me.

You've gotta do what you like to do. If you do things you don't like to do, what sense does it make?

Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don't need it.

Roxanne Quimby wanted money and power, and I was just a pillar on the way to that success.

No one has ever accused me of being ambitious.

My life is the land, the dogs, the car, the motorcycle, the pond, the canoe, going to pick up mail. It's just a rural retreat that I enjoy.

Money.. Its nothing really worth squabbling about. I mean, this is what puts people six feet under!

I'm less interested in the inside of whatever it is I own than on the outside of what it sits on.

The magic of living life for me is, and always has been, the magic of living on the land, not in the magic of money.