Lauren Greenfield Quotes

I shop, therefore I am.

I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'

In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume.

The American Dream is really money.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

Most human beings are defined in terms of their capacity to consume.

The more I stack, the more things I can buy: the more toys, the more houses, and everything. That's the motivation, but I'm also a competitive person. I need goals, and I need that competition and to drive for something.

I'm living the American dream.

In America the biggest is the best.

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

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

As we get rich, the basics of life - food, clothing and shelter - become a very small part of total expenditure. And people have enough money to purchase things that enhance them spiritually, and I mean the word 'spiritual' not necessarily in a religious sense but in the sense that it adds to your feeling of well-being.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world.

If you're not willing to work, you're never going to be able to experience the American Dream.

The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

We have never enjoyed a piece of the great American dream.

Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns.

We’re the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.

In no country in the world is the love of property more active and more anxious than in the United States.

In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries.