Wayne Dyer Quotes

The media is convincing people that if you have that 'next thing,' that diamond, the right car, then you'd be happier.

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

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.'

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

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

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.

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

We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us incessantly with the latest 'must-haves', whether that's shoes, videogames or patio heaters. As a result, mums think they 'have' to work at Tesco in order to buy expensive trainers.

By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.

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.

However widely, or equally, or "fairly", it may be distributed, no general increase of the community's wealth can make any approach to satiating this need, the ground of which is the desire of every one to excel everyone else in the accumulation of goods.

I already own more than any human being needs.

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.

We always want more. Whether it is better clothes, a bigger house, faster cars, or the latest gadgets, satisfaction in these days of consumerism is difficult to find.

Poor is the man who desires a lot

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'

The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

I like suggesting that 'we are slaves to the objects around us,' that 'plenty should be enough,' or that the 'buyer should beware,' within the context of conventional selling space.

I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car, we could buy all of them. As soon as you realize that you could buy all of them, then none of them are particularly interesting or satisfying.

There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really.