Quotes About Materialism

When money comes in at the gate, sport flies out at the window.

If people focused on life's really important matters there'd be a shortage of golf clubs.

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.

For me success was always going to be a Lamborghini. But now I've got it, it just sits on my drive.

There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

Success doesn't bring happiness. Only material stuff like money, cars and iPods can do that. And I've already got all that. So I have to find other ways to amuse myself.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

We are taught to want a thing. We are taught that having that thing will make us happy. We are taught that having it immediately is the answer. We are taught a corrupted version of success. And love.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

We must teach our children that the real measure of their success in life is how much they'd be worth if they had absolutely nothing.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

If you think that material success will bring you happiness, relationships, people, places, things, fame, fortune, you definitely should not practice tantra.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Success with a small s is based on accumulation and materialism. Success with a large S is based on the unfoldment of our soul and the generosity of Spirit made manifest by the giving of our gifts.

There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.

Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths.

We are concerned with things. We are concerned with success. We are concerned with money. We are concerned with instrumentalities.