Dave Clark Quotes

I'm trying to forget how much that cost, but I just had to have them.

When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!

In America the biggest is the best.

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

I didn't buy the Porsche for status. I hate that, and it's actually kind of goofy now because in L.A., a Porsche is like a Honda. It was just that I could pay that much money for a car and drive it off the lot.

Luxury is a difficult object to describe - it's been the object of hundreds of years of discussion. We definitely don't need it, but it's good for the soul.

Luxury is not a $4,000 T-shirt - that's just an expensive item, the same as if a can of Coca-Cola cost $5,000.

Well, I like cars. Just because you have two it doesn't make you flash.

Luxury takes many forms nowadays, but one thing doesn't change: luxury is about desire and the ability to create dreams.

Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.

People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got.

In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.

I do have a Bentley. I do go out.

'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.

You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing.

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

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

Bling is good.

When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.

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