Bette Midler Quotes

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

I think for Amazon's customers, it offers a kind of addictive service - the ability to shop without leaving your house, the ability to read without going to a bookstore or a library.

This has resulted in more and more people becoming inner-directed and having as their only goal, getting as much as they can get out of the system and putting as little into it as possible.

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

Online shopping makes everything so much easier - it's a bad habit of mine.

Amazon has done something for all of retail, which is resetting the customer expectations about how quickly and easily you can get things.

We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a good dinner and plenty of money, and let us outshine our neighbors. There is the Nineteenth Century Gospel.

I want it all and I want it now.

I'm an American and I want instant gratification.

It's a wonderful world when you have what you want at all times.

I want it all quickly 'cause I don't want God to stop and think and wonder if I'm getting more than my share.

Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.

Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.

As the Internet has sped up the consumer experience, customer expectations are higher.

I'm very impatient. I always want more.

We live in such a self-gratifying nation, and everything is instantaneous.

There are a whole bunch of people who don't like to shop. But there are also people, maybe, who even do like to shop but are very time pressured. And so shopping online can save people time.

Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience ... centered primarily around bodily pleasures and status rankings. ... The common denominator is a rugged and ragged individualism and rapacious hedonism in quest of a perennial "high" in body and mind.

Throw em a bone and they want a steak.

We want the world and we want it...

We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything

You want it, you buy it, you forget it.

He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.

To build enormous palaces, to conquer or to mimic nature, to ransack the world in order to gratify the passions of a man, is not thought of, but to add a few yards of land to your field, to plant an orchard, or enlarge a dwelling, to always be making life more comfortable and convenient, to avoid trouble, and to satisfy the smallest wants without effort and almost without cost. These are small objects, but the soul clings to them; it dwells upon them closely and day by day, till they at last shut out the rest of the world and sometimes intervene between itself and heaven.