Jeff Bezos Quotes

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

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

How much of this junk shall we buy?

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.

We spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to make impressions that don't matter.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

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

I always say to my people, 'If you don't sell a Ferrari to a football player, you make a big present to me.' Really. Because they buy to just show off. I don't like.

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

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.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Business – the world's work – is the sale of lies

We must be aware of consumerism! That's our tendency. It's the capitalistic curse that we were poisoned with. We should spend only what is necessary. How do you call the big cars, the latest ones? Hummer! Not a single dollar to import Hummers! What is that? What is that? What kind of revolution is this? One of Hummers? No way!

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

I have more than 100 pairs of Jimmy Choos and I feel very guilty about it.

People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.

...men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the "culture of waste." If you break a computer it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs, the dramas of so many people end up becoming the norm.

Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy.

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

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.

If you buy an expensive thing and you never use it, I don't think there's a point to it.

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.

Since I was 13, I've been buying things because they are ridiculously cheap.