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“I mean, there aren’t many inventions that actually succeed in meeting some human need. Ninety-nine percent of them are just some ugly combo of pushy marketing and spineless consumers.”

- Etgar Keret,

Tag: consumerism, consumers, consumption, inventions, marketing, success,

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“Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.”

- Ryan Lilly

Tag: authentic, business-advice, business-quote, business-quotes, consumer, consumption, creation, creative, creativity, lifting, manufacture, mediocre, mediocre-minds, mediocre-people, mediocrity, motivation, motivational, original, originality, replicate, replication, success, treadmill, weight-training, weightlifting, weights,

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“Bling” is not an indication of riches. It is a product of value-based spending, to enrich the pockets of those outside of ones sphere of influence…the haves’ bleeding the have-nots’.”

- T.F. Hodge,

Tag: bling, consumption, have-nots, haves, influence, quotes, retail, riches, shopping, spending, value,

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“An expensive car is material in nature, but driving it does not necessarily make us materialist, just as sitting in a church does not make us spiritual.”

- Joseph Rain,

Tag: car, church, consumption, faith, material, materialism, spirituality, who-we-are, wisdom,

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“Happiness is,’ after all, a consumption ethic.”

- Joan Didion,

Tag: capitalism, consumption, happiness,

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“Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.”

- Elise Boulding

Tag: consumption, frugality, happiness,

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All Quotes By Tag: Consumption