Ronald Burkle Quotes

Oh my God, I'm a walking advertisement for discounted shopping.

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.

I'm not a big shopper.

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.

I'm a danger to myself and others in expensive, designer shops, as they send me giddy with excitement, causing me to snap up all manner of silly things.

I don't really shop too much. I shop a few times a year.

My wife will buy anything marked down. Last year she bought an escalator.

I'm guilty of going to a fitting, then going out to buy the same outfit. It's been a problem for my bank account!

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

Honestly, my splurges happen at Target. I'll go and spend, like, $600, and I don't know why! And then I'm really happy about it, but then I'll be like, 'Why did I do that?!'

Bad shopping habits die hard.

Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.

I'm a sucker for a sale. I don't understand why anyone wants to pay full price for anything because everything goes on sale. I love sale websites. In fact - this is almost kind of embarrassing - I'm coming from an Isabel Marant sample sale.

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

I do, kind of, spend a lot. And just on stupid things. Because I don't really know what to do. What are you supposed to do? Um. It just seems like way too much. We don't deserve it, at all, for what we do.

The easier things are to buy, the more we consume.

When I was an impoverished graduate student, I would sometimes spend $20 or $30 on a T-shirt or accessory I didn't need or even particularly want. What I craved was the purchase, not the thing itself. Of course, a sense of not being deprived may fill an emotional void without ruinous consequences.

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.

Like my mum, I sometimes buy things I shouldn't and fill my house with rubbish.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

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

Shopping turns me off.

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

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