Quotes About Consumerism

In the early '80s, the arcade game Pac-Man was twice as popular as oxygen.

A hamburger by any other name costs twice as much.

I have to have everything. I have to have iPads. I've had I think every generation of iPod. I've had all the consoles at least once; I've had some of them twice. I get them and get fed up with them and get rid of them.

I don't wear anything more than once most of the time. I try not to wear the same thing twice. I have too many clothes to wear the same thing twice.

It's not the networks, it's the advertisers who want to appeal to the young males who go to the movies and buy all of this stuff.

The success of the Hollywood marketing machine is to limit what we see. Not just to limit what we can see, but also to limit our expectations - to limit what we want to see.

The more advertising I see, the less I want to buy.

Politics, like advertising, is about people selling you things you didn't really want or need.

I wanted something that was really well-made but also still hitting a price point that's tangible and logical for average people - that's who I want to cater to.

It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want.

Even though people are under economic pressure, they still want to support those brands with values that are compatible with their own.

I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.

People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner, you don't have to open.

Recycling, packaging, businesses are changing all of those things because that's what consumers want.

We do not manufacture wants for goods we do not produce.

I have Twitter so I can tell people what I want them to buy and they give me money.

The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created wants, and the wants are created.

I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave objects.

Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant.

When the economy changes, it's not like you want to start eating bad-tasting chocolate.

The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.

I think I am like everyone else in the music business these days - you have to adjust to the times and deliver whatever people want, and are using to consume the music.

Our attitudes toward human relationships are those of supermarket shoppers: we want what is cheap and quick and easy

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.