Donald Cerrone Quotes

When I started to make money, I went a bit crazy. Once, I went to the race track and woke up the next morning owning a horse.

I'm an impulse buyer. I'd step inside a shop and buy a nice dress, just like that. Only then do I realize it cost a tidy sum. And when I enter a jewelry store, wow!

I live by 'Earnin' and burnin'.' Meaning, I like to make money and spend it before I even have it. That's the way I live my life.

I'm an impulse buyer. I don't really go out with a list.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

I've never been clever with money. I will buy anything at the top of the market.

Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.

By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.

We have a bad habit. We buy what we want and beg what we need.

There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow.

I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.

Just because you can afford it doesn't mean you should buy it.

You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing.

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether we were wealthy, working-class or in between. We spent a decade feasting on easy money, don't-pay-as-you-go consumerism and a metastasizing celebrity culture.

We've all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich but are broke by nightfall.

The easier things are to buy, the more we consume.

Without grounding, it's easy to embrace the 'baller' lifestyle: dropping out of tech, throwing money at cars, boats and real estate, and slipping into a cycle of spending and indulgence.

If there is something I like, I buy it and then find somewhere for it. I buy first then I think.

I blew about pounds 70,000 on stupid things - a very expensive car which got written off, and nightclubs. I'd always pick up the bill. It's very easy to spend a lot of money in a short space of time, going out.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

I prefer buying things and figuring out where to put them later than regretting not buying them.

I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.