Quotes About Materialism

I treasure my friends but not my possessions.

Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins.

I treated myself to a £700 Chloe bag after one of my first acting jobs. Then my friends pointed out that, for the same money, I could buy a flight to India. So I took it back.

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.

I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!

It's just as easy to buy a $12,000 watch in East Hampton as it is to pick up a carton of milk, and new homeowners are so impatient that they landscape their front lawns with 'mature gardens' of full-grown trees.

Sometimes it feels like it hurts when you make a big purchase, so I really believe that the more expensive things should be gems that you keep in your closet, not trends.

Money and religion are perfect alloy.

Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.

But you can not buy what doesn't belong to you.

As a rule, the human mind gets attached to possessions very firmly. They don't want to lose anything. They hold on to the little possession and can't see the big possibilities.

Money makes a person significant and important, it has the ability to make us proud

It doesn't matter how much money we have or how much we own here on Earth-we have to die and leave it all-that's the plain truth

Life isn't all about money but this life is nothing without it!

When possession of wealth or splendors brings happiness- it is an illusion, when attainment of certain mental state brings happiness- it is a real possession.

I'm not here to win the rat race of materialism. I am here to experience the depths of my soul in form.

Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything

It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free.

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.

There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.

I can live well with what I have.I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more.

Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things. On the other hand, nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything.

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.