Quotes About Consumerism

Our merchandised may be over priced, but I think it's reasonable considering I only want more money.

Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.

The world is changing.... I don't, as a consumer, want advertising that's not relevant. If we're going to take a side let's take the side of the consumer.

Every day in America, about 25,000 people buy a quarter-inch drill. But nobody in America wants a quarter-inch drill. What they want are holes.

To people who make moving ads that block the view of websites: Not only will we not buy from you, but we want shrews to eat your liver.

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

We create a product nobody needs but people want. You spend more for what you really want; some boring things you need: an ugly old car can wait, but if you have a new fashion item it cannot wait.

The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.

Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want?

What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to remain capitalists have to learn to dance to it.

If you think the products don't match what you want from a product, don't buy it.

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

Old is unwanted. You don't find Thais going to the thrift store. They want new clothes. They want the newest cell phone.

When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.

It feels so weird to be able to just kind of buy things when I want them or need them.

I have found that many other countries will buy off on anything American. As much as they hate us, they want to be us more than anything.

One cannot sell anything to a satisfied man. Ergo, make him want something new, or take away something that he has and then sell him something to take its place.

The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.

Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.

Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.

People are lazy, and they want their fast food via the television.

Cottonballs are an example of something I'd want to buy, but not have as a nickname.

Shops and clubs are very important when you want to change things. And they have a common denominator; the customer.

The language of Consumer is most colorful. At last count, this language possesses twenty-nine thousand four hundred fifty six words and phrases to replace and deflect the immoral concept of 'greed'. It possesses Four Volumes of Rationalizations, Nine Volumes of Justifications and a Handy Quick-Chart of Suitable False Definitions of the concept of 'need', an essential resource to be used at the Moment of Indecision in Conjunction with Mouth- Watering Pupil- Dilating Desire.