Quotes About Consumerism

Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop.

I'm in the Apple store on Regent Street far too much; I'm obsessed by whatever the latest Apple gadget is. For clothes, I love to shop in Liam Gallagher's shop Pretty Green on Carnaby Street, or Cult Clothing in Crouch End, for Original Penguin and G-Star.

The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.

I don't live with the 'right' people. I don't want to. I don't want to live with the rich in Beverly Hills or walk the streets of Hollywood. I want to go to K-mart and get good deals.

The streets buy records, but they don't really buy records in incredible numbers.

Shopping stresses me out.

I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist.

I find shopping too stressful. I get hot and flustered and irritated and feel sick after I've bought something.

People come into McDonald's two to three times a month - to extrapolate that to the cause of obesity is a real stretch.

Any time there is an economic downturn or political strife, lipstick sales skyrocket. If you have a hard day, it's this $14 thing that lifts your day. I think drag has that same lipstick effect.

Companies know that children have disproportionate influence over their parents' purse strings.

Desire is the strongest human emotion - desire for a hat, desire for a dress; that's what drives people to buy and want things.

We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

It's easy to design expensive products. But there's that product democracy that I believe very strongly in to make something affordable for almost anybody that would want to use it.

It is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things... They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.

Customers are now driven by trying to optimize value.

On the consumer level, the products developed by entrepreneurs help to provide more and better options that make life easier and more enjoyable in the everyday lives of the public.

Have you ever booked multiple restaurants so you could decide on the night where to go? Complained about the price of a dish that you loved? Ordered a coffee to use a cafe's wi-fi for half a day? If you said 'yes' to any of those, chances are there's a restaurateur out there who's hurting a little because of it.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

Just because you want to wear organic cotton doesn't mean you have to spend an arm and a leg.

We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.

Our music is consumer. It's made to be played with, it's made to have fun.

You think you need the newest shoe and the newest outfit. We forget exercising is free. We forget it only takes a little bit every day.

We love a good deal. Outlets, yeah, we do the outlets all the time.