Robert J. Shiller Quotes

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I'm such a Diet Cokehead. Now I won't let myself buy it.

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

Everybody's got their poison, and mine is sugar.

At school, I was only allowed four sweets every Wednesday, so I've developed an addiction.

The impulse to spend seizes everyone. He who, the whole year through has taken pleasure is saving and piling up his money suddenly becomes extravagant. A stream of presents pours itself out on all sides.

Sometimes I can't stop myself from buying things just because I see them - even when I don't really need them.

In midlife, I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that I wish I could shuck.

Oh God, don't let me go on Amazon Prime at one in the morning 'cause I always buy something I don't need.

I'm tempted by rubbish food after wins.

I'm such an addictive personality that I can say yes or no.

Spending is an addiction.

It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.

I was always curious why certain marketing worked and some marketing did not.

...in seduction, as in all forms of marketing, form superseds content.

But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.

Promotion and perception are synonymous twins of art marketing.

Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.

The point to remember about selling things is that, as well as creating atmosphere and excitement around your products, you've got to know what you're selling.

It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising.

I have an 800 freephone number now that I call if I get the urge to buy an airline stock. I call at two in the morning and I say: "My name is Warren and I'm an aeroholic." And then they talk me down.

A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.

Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.

Good marketing offers us a view of the world. Bad marketing offers us a product to buy.

Never get high on your own supply.