John Hewson Quotes

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.

How many BMWs do you need? How many Rolex watches you gonna wear in your lifetime, for crying out loud? What is it about that kind of desire? I don't understand it.

After I had money, I realized about all that all the things I thought I wanted that I don't need a lot of stuff. If there's anything I get excited by, it's a nice car.

I didn't think about money or cars or anything like that.

As Realtors, you live and breathe the American dream.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

The American dream is still to own your home.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

I bought my first house at 19-years old.

I still think, from an individual perspective, the best deal investment you can make is to buy a primary residence that you're the owner-occupier of.

I don't know what the hell the future brings. If I did, I would play the lotto and win the mega millions and buy toy cars, real muscle cars, sneakers, and art.

With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

I don't really like money - I like the things you can buy with money.

Money is sensual.

Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house.

If you're going to live in the house make it your goal to just pay off your mortgage.

In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

It's cheaper to buy a house and finance it than it is to rent in many markets.

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.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.