"Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't."
Mignon McLaughlin.

"The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments."
Mad Magazine.

"You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy."
Eric Hoffer.

"The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is a moral problem, not an economic one."
Paul Heyne.

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
Edward Abbey.

"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need."
Chuck Palahniuk.

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."
Vernon Howard.

"Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites."
William Ruckelshaus.

"After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world."
Pam Shaw.