Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.

You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, 'You know, no amount of real estate is gonna fill that void.'

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.

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 don't understand this pathetic need for luxuries.

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.

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

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Most of the things we buy are wants. And we call them needs, but they're wants.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

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.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

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

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

There is nothing wrong with having nice things, but when you are trying to buy nice things to be happy, you are going to hurt. It's not going to work.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have... we always want more.

People like their handbag more than their sofa, and I hate it.

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.

I look about my house and see there are lots of lovely things in it, but I constantly buy more.

We tend to always want to obtain something new and something more, and we never really enjoy what we have.