Keeping Up with the Joneses Quotes

Our entire society is rooted around the idea of more, and longer has become the measure of success.

In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.

I ain't trying to keep up with the trends - the hats, the hair colours, the dress codes.

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

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

I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.

People are always jumping at what's new - who's the next person, who's the hottest thing, or whatever - so to be able to grasp the attention of everybody is difficult.

I never felt the need to be in the rat race.

In L.A. there's diet trends, there's the new nip and tuck people are doing, the new person who is in town you never saw before.

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

For the exploitation of human greed, they have devised comparison and competition. Right from childhood on, we are indoctrinated to compare and compete, and there is a word, a phrase: 'free and fair competition.'

I know it's not enjoying my success to do this, but when I see too many Polo shirts, I say to myself, 'That's the end of that.'

I think there's always interest in how the other half live - I see myself as a down-to-earth Essex mum who just happens to be living this very glamorous life in Beverly Hills.

It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they're going to buy next summer.

I can't stand the need to be fashionable.

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.

I'm sure that it's a universal experience, but I wonder if it gets exacerbated more in Los Angeles, where people are constantly looking over at the other people, going, 'Why don't I have that? I want that. Their table looks warmer.'

Things get much easier if one jumps on the bandwagon of existing trends.

I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

I think with social media and Instagram, people are able to see what's over the fence of everyone else, and it all seems within reach.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,' and they abandon their values.

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

Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.