“It has been argued that relatively poor people will borrow to buy a house, so why not to buy a degree?”

“People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? You can't take it with you. The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative.”

“We didn't starve. We spent wisely. Like I tell people in the ghetto, "If you can buy guns and bullets, why can't you buy food? You can buy heroin and crack cocaine, so why can't you buy bread and butter and milk? Why can't you pay your rent?" There's a lot of people in the ghetto who go out and get a fancy car and all that. The car costs more than their house. Meanwhile, your kids need shoes. That's not cool.”

“People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe”

“No days you can borrow, no time you can buy.
No trust in tomorrow. It's a lie.”

“Borrowing to build factories is not the economic equivalent of borrowing to buy television sets, and it’s amazing just how few modern economists can see the difference…Borrowing to produce is the way poor countries become rich. Borrowing to consume is the way rich countries become poor. A vivid example of the latter is the stream of container ships unloading at U. S. ports and going back empty because we have nothing to ship.”

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”

“If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?”

“If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?”

“I sort of hope [a housing crash] happens because then people like me would go in and buy.”