Quotes About Consumption

money is an acquired taste that grows as it is fed.

I think money isn't any good sitting around, so I spend some time in the shoe department at Saks.

When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy

I spend five times more money at a chemist shop than I would at a fashion boutique. Clothes shopping is optional for me; shopping at a chemist store is a must.

Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday.

Theres a thousand other things I would rather spend money on than a car.

Saving money won't get us rich. You have to spend it to get it.

People with money tend to buy more things instead of experiences...because they don't have time.

I spend my money...I don't know on what.

We only pay for what we admire, want and recognize as necessary, even when a cup of coffee is priced at the same value of a book that can change our entire future.

Needs expand themselves to make use of the money available …. And desires expand to make use of 'others' money as well!

Mankind's obsession with money and greed has them going down a one way street to their demise.

Man can only use money to buy man-made goods.

When you understand that everything you buy is purchased with a portion of your life, it should make you more careful with the use of money.

A $3 Cup of Coffee is Worth a Book.

Money is 'limited' and people's demands are 'unlimited'.

Rich men use most of their money to get richer. Poor men use most of their money to look richer.

Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another's labor?

People don't actually read newspapers - they get into them every morning like a hot bath.

The spaghetti sauce is a good thing to think about. Morning, noon, and night, think about the spaghetti sauce. Think about hustling other people to buy the spaghetti sauce.

I'm not a great consumer. I always ask myself, 'Do I really need that piece?' I have friends who have 300 pairs of shoes; how would you leave the house in the morning?

Mother of otherness, Eat me.

Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good.

It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.