Jerry Zucker Quotes

I'm not a great consumer. I always ask myself, 'Do I really need that piece?' I have friends who have 300 pairs of shoes; how would you leave the house in the morning?

You can't just buy things for the label - it's ridiculous.

If all purchases are spontaneous and simply driven by what is seen and loved, there is a high risk of ending up with 10 cocktail dresses and no outfits for work.

Other than things like toothpaste, I don't buy anything that isn't sold to me.

You buy a new iPhone, a few months later, another new iPhone comes out, and you get online to buy another one. You can't get enough. You are addicted to Apple.

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale.

I am not one of these people who spend a ton of time in front on my computer; I see it as very utilitarian.

As my wife will attest, I do not shop casually.

My wife, if she wants it, she will just go out and buy it.

I'm not a big shopper.

When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.

I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.

The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them.

Not every Apple product makes a big enough difference to me to get instantly, although many do.

How much of this junk shall we buy?

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

People tend to cherish and take care of the things they pay for and therefore own, countries included. The opposite is also true. When was the last time you changed the oil in a rental car?

I spent more money on one robe than guys spend in five years.

For me personally, I cannot spend a certain amount of money on anything but shoes, a coat, a purse, and that's it. I could never spend more than $1K on a sweater. I'm only going to wear it twice. But you go online, and you see incredibly expensive sweaters selling out constantly.

I try to differentiate between what I need and don't need. I talk to my wife and children before buying things.

I want people to come to me open and vulnerable. When they come to the gallery, they have to leave their watches, their computers, their Blackberrys, iPads, iPhones, because we are so incredibly used to technology, and I wanted to remove that.

I'm not one of those people that needs to have all of the new gadgets or wants any of that.

When will you learn that the time to buy a thing is when you find what you want? If you go back the next year and try to get more, they will try to sell you something else.

Human nature says that you want a bargain, whether you want the goods or not. You think that something is a steal, you'll buy it.