Michael Pollan Quotes

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

If you looked at their cable bill, their telephone, their cell phone bill, other things they're spending money on, it may turn out that, it's just that they haven't prioritized health care.

If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.

I used to buy nice clothes and drive a nice car when I couldn't afford it. But I spent all my money doing it, and now I don't have to. I like nice things. I like to travel in a certain style. I like to live in a nice place.

There's a thousand other things I would rather spend money on than a car.

I'd rather buy clothes than buy a bed.

Nobody thought about having more money than you could ever spend.

People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

If I make $30,000 a month, I'll spend $29,999. I tell friends, 'Oh, you need money to go to college?' I'm a little crazy, but the backwash is heaven.

People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

Priorities are reflected in the things we spend money on... A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what it's values are.

It's always possible to spend more money.

I don't really shop a lot, just cause I'd rather not spend my money on clothes.

I can't see myself ever spending hundreds of thousands on anything that doesn't come with a toilet.

It would be great to run around with the family every day, go shopping, take the children out. At my level, though, I can only afford to do that for one week maximum. Otherwise I have to eat, sleep, train - nothing else.

In the old days I never thought about money - but then, of course, the clothes were so ugly in the '80s there was nothing I wanted.

I made $2.58 an hour, and I spent it all on clothes.

When people say to me, 'You're so prolific!' it's, like, no, I'm just hopeless with money.

I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va! If I had had the money I wouldn't have spent it on shit like that.

I have no idea what's going to happen. Who knows - if they can't afford to buy a boat, maybe they buy a print. Who knows what happens with their buck?

We spend a remarkably small, shamefully small, percentage of our income on food. We manage to spend money on lots of other things. All up and down the social ladder you find people with plenty of money for cell phones, home entertainment systems, all other forms of entertainment.

That’s kind of where all my money goes. I’m going to be a very broke girl with a really great wardrobe.

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

Rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first.