Pierre Omidyar Quotes

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?

I don't understand this pathetic need for luxuries.

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.

We always want more. Whether it is better clothes, a bigger house, faster cars, or the latest gadgets, satisfaction in these days of consumerism is difficult to find.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

Our culture highlights the desire to always have more, even when we should be grateful for what we have.

Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money.

You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

Human nature doesn't change. When enough people are comfortable enough financially, there is going to be human nature that wants to spend more money on better quality and, to some degree, status symbols as well.

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 think we're all greedy. Who do you know who says, 'I have enough! I don't need any more!'? It's part of human nature.

Materialism isn't the panacea that so many people think it is.

The more we consume, acquire, and elevate our status, the harder it is to stay happy.

I have no use for eight houses, 88 cars and 500 suits. I can't eat but one steak at a time. I don't want but one woman. It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth.

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.

Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.

There is nothing like wealth for dulling desire.

The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.

The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.

We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better.