Quotes About Materialism

I'm not a big car person. I'm not into lots of fancy things.

Everybody can go out and buy fancy things and, while I don't have a problem with that, I do think players should earn the right to say 'I deserve this big contract and all this money'.

People are fascinated with the fast life, the easy life. For some reason, that's an American dream, and it goes all the way back to the Edward G. Robinsons and the Cagneys.

Someone else's paper is fascinating until you buy it yourself. Then it loses its appeal, and you have to pass it on to someone else to reinvigorate it.

Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.'

Money cannot buy the self-actualization of one's feelings.

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

In America, what you've accomplished financially is a measurement, whether you like it or not.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

I'm rarely invited to start-up parties, but who cares about their trinkets and apps anyway?

I'm not very materialistic - I don't have a whole lot of stuff. But I do always like a pair of really weird socks.

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.

Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is cast. If you are bored or you have problems, it can be a way of lifting your spirits, by doing something light and superficial. Why not?

In essence, the Thai people are not materialistic at all. They're not in the least driven by the kind of ambition that drives us. The more I got to know them, and the more time I spent with them, the more I understood that this was a totally legitimate attitude to life, and why not?

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

I have a habit of collecting all my old stuff. I still have all my old clothes and old cars, but my wife spends all my money.

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

I have realised that we are running after things that are so temporary and fleeting - be it fame or money or anything like that.

Sometimes America gets tempted by the glitz and glamour.

Some people see life as many steps up and try to forget where they are coming from, you understand? A little step in life on a commercial or a material level is a good step, but a big step does not mean a strong step - you tend to lose your roots - and if you don't be careful, you can fall.