I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

For greed all nature is too little.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else’s, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

If you’re entering anything where there’s an existing marketplace, against large, entrenched competitors, then your product or service needs to be much better than theirs. It can’t be a little bit better, because then you put yourself in the shoes of the consumer… you’re always going to buy the trusted brand unless there’s a big difference.

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they’re not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

People concerned about inflation today tend to buy big houses and nice cars.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn’t have to advertise them.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook’s a free service. It’s free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

The problem with car dealerships is you’ve already decided what you want to buy before you even go there, and you’re really just going there to talk through some annoying negotiation.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

It’s no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Material things are delightful, but they’re not important.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.