Adam Davidson Quotes

There is an attitude that we should be able to have everything. No, you shouldn't be able to have anything. I'd like a helicopter, but I can't afford a helicopter, so I don't buy one. People are buying stuff they can't afford on credit. I bought my Ford hybrid with cash.

In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year.

I have tons of sunglasses. My husband won't let me buy another pair because I lose them all the time.

I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.

You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

… frittered away, 9 times out of 10, in things which pertain to the body and not to the spirit; upon richer food and drink, better clothing, more extravagant living, which are beneficial neither to rich or nor poor.

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

We buy too much stuff we just don't need. We're trying to look cute for next weekend when we ought to be thinking about the next decade.

If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

In January we start saving money, getting out of credit card debt, funding our retirement accounts, and we're doing wonderful. Then, every single year like clockwork, starting in November, all of you fall into this trap that says, 'I have to buy this gift... I can't show up at this party and not have something for everybody.'

Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

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

I used to buy nice clothes and drive a nice car when I couldn't afford it. But I spent all my money doing it, and now I don't have to. I like nice things. I like to travel in a certain style. I like to live in a nice place.

Bad shopping habits die hard.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.

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

I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

I love buying things. I could be one of those crazy hoarders.

Shopping turns me off.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.

In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.