Quotes About Materialism

Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.

Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money.

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.

What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.

The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

I don't want money. What the hell's money good for? You can't drive it and you can't eat it and it won't even fix a flat.

Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.

All the messages our kids are getting is money-taking, not giving.

I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money.

People who recognize that money won't buy happiness are still willing to see if credit cards will do the trick.

Money cannot make you happy, but it can get rid of many of the things that make you unhappy.

Money can be fickle, having a lasting relationship with a few and a brief fling with others, while just flirting with the rest of us.

Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.

I am only interested in money because everyone else is.

Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got.

Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don't care what anyone else thinks.

I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined.

[Yahya Khan] thought of nothing but acquiring beautiful cars, building beautiful homes, making friends with bankers, and sending money abroad.

Money doesn't talk. It screams.

People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.

Money shouldn't be worshiped and it shouldn't be ignored.