Quotes About Consumption

It doesn't do Costco any good if nobody can afford to buy anything.

Girl, it costs money to make content, so it should cost money to consume. If you want it, you should have to pay for it. That's life.

Cows and other livestock account for roughly one-sixth of all greenhouse-gas emissions, and as a general point, eating meat means taxing the Earth.

It's weird how America works. Healthy food costs way more than crap.

I ate everything. I ate every single lolly you can think of. Chocolate bars, Curly Wurlys, Aero bars, Fantales, Minties, Clinkers, Cherry Ripes. Pretty much anything, you name it, I ate it.

I look at the money I'm about to spend on myself and ask if IKEA's customers could afford it.

As cute as baby clothes are... I try to buy less.

I go through these cycles where I read a lot and then watch TV a lot.

I try to avoid cheese, dairy and a lot of meat, but I do like them.

Even if you've gone easy on the vermouth, there are still serious downsides to alcohol consumption, including but not limited to the sense that you're a good dancer.

Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs that require more disk space and processing power. We buy bigger, faster computers, which then require more complex operating systems, and so on.

Part of an icon's power comes from its indivisibility. The swoosh cannot be further deconstructed into its component parts. Just as golden arches mean McDonald's, and the little red tab means Levi's, the swoosh is Nike. The product is its icon, inseparably and without exception. To buy a pair of Nike shoes is to buy the Nike swoosh.

Phones and tablet PCs are primarily consumption devices and not typically used for creation of content. It's here that we need PCs.

I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.

'Absolute Water' converts sewage water into water which can be even consumed - if only one can get rid of the taboo of drinking sewage water, which they do in many parts of the world!

Human beings are just animals who will just eat and take advantage of any source of energy until it runs out, and then there'll be catastrophe.

When something you use again and again is on sale, take advantage. This strategy doesn't apply to perishable items, and you don't want to buy so much more than you need just to get a deal, but if you know you're going to use a product eventually, it pays to take advantage of the cheaper price.

Customers want to buy something which is not expensive because of a label but which is costly because of the time taken to produce it.

GIFs work because the punch line is instantaneous. It's entirely different from almost any other form of content on the Internet, which takes time to consume.

I binge pretty much everything. If I'm watching something, I'm bingeing it. I binged 'The Good Place' recently. 'Handmaid's Tale.'

A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.

It doesn't take a degree in economics to know that something is wrong when it takes $30 or $40 to fill up the gas tank.

To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion

First, buy things for their usefulness rather than their status.