Quotes About Materialism

I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche. I have a really nice truck. But it's a Durango and I like frontin'! I like to ride by and show off.

Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did.

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

I have an aluminium trunk that I came to Delhi with. God has given me a lot in the last 27 years, but that trunk remains with me. I can return to Motihari with that trunk but I have my family to support.

As handbags get ever more absurdly large, so they need to carry more stuff to validate the expense of this huge trunk with chains, buckles and padlocks on.

I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.

Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.

We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.

I own more shotguns than I need. But less shotguns than I want.

that's what everybody wants, just a little more money, even the people who have it.

A forty and a blunt, that's all she really wants.

The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want.

People don't want to be millionaires - they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream.

People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures.

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.

America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.

I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.