Quotes About Materialism

The master race, for real, is money. Money can buy you anything.

I never grew up with money, and I never wanted a lot of material things.

I don't feel like material things validate me in any way.

I'm not big on material things, but I like my cars. They are German-made and custom-made.

Material things don't matter.

I'm not a guy who's about the material things.

That materialistic life, that's not my god.

It is a materialistic world full of mean people and not a place for people like me who value emotions.

Money is important. It is an important resource to have to help us build the life we want, but we overvalue it.

Rich is not better.

Every time I have a hit, I buy a Rolls.

The want of money is the root of all evil.

Our entire society is rooted around the idea of more, and longer has become the measure of success.

Everyone's life is for sale in America.

I sat there with everything - and I had nothing.

I've always been salaried; I've never owned anything. I've done very well, lived very well.

I have cared so much and so little about the cars I've owned.

I would take one of 15 half-million-dollar cars I owned and go to the mall and spend that much money. Stupid, stupid stuff. It's like it didn't make a difference. They were ego investments. I would have been great with three or four cars. I didn't need a 117-foot boat.

I never owned a piano and I never had a house full of period furniture.

Sometimes it's better to look at things than own them... owning means anxiety and lots of bags to carry around.

As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person.

I'm not interested in owning a bunch of driveways.

Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To own is to have, to have is to hold, and to hold is to show off.

Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.