Jon Hamm Quotes

There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you know, I'm not a yacht person, and I've got pretty much the nicest plane I'd want to have.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.

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.

I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.

We use fashion for status and to beautify and there's nothing wrong with that, but when it becomes completely unbalanced, then you're living a decadent life. And when that happens on a global scale, you're living in a decadent world.

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.

What's problematic about playing stadiums and driving around in private jets and drinking champagne at 8 o'clock in the morning? What's wrong with that? I haven't got a problem with that. I can't fathom why people would.

I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.

I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.

I've been offered private planes, and I'm like, 'No!'

I have more than 100 pairs of Jimmy Choos and I feel very guilty about it.

A woman can never have enough shoes.

I'm a magpie - I collect accessories and trinkets. But I don't have expensive tastes.

I got, like, 120 pairs of glasses and 800 pairs of sneakers.

I spend a lot of money on shoes and barely any on clothes.

I'm an extremist. If I go to a sneaker store, I buy 20 pairs of sneakers, not one.

When you're young, luxury often means being able to buy something you really want - a high end bag or a specific car.

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.

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.

America is a country of excess.

There's a lot of music nowadays with people singing about how amazing their clothes are and how incredible their shoes are and how much jewelry they might be wearing or how much jewelry they want, how much money they have and the club that they're in and the alcohol that they're drinking. I think that's showing off. I don't think it's necessarily all that honest or all that interesting.