I have never been able to understand the compelling phrase, 'keeping up with the Joneses.' It does not matter very much whether… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
[Keeping Up with the Joneses] is not one of those movies where people get shot and fall down and there's no reality… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
We didn't want to make it a parody of Don Draper[in Keeping Up With the Joneses] but we did arrive on this… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
Jon Hamm was the first I thought of for the other role in [Keeping Up with the Joneses], I recently worked with… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Giving up the obsession of sign-values and the subservient fascination of the social pyramid, allows us to set priorities in life, find… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The economist Juliet Schor talks about how our reference group has changed over the last twenty-five years. As we spend less time… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
“The world is a show and the show is a performance of the wealthy, the beautiful and the fortunate. The invulnerable, the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Zach's [Galifianakis] and I auditioned Zach a million years ago on a movie called Duplex which I… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
They [investment bankers] don't even want the stuff that they've got, you know the fancy cars and houses. Their consumption is basically… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
We call it keeping up with the Joneses. They buy a boat and we buy a bigger one. They get a new… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
“Andy Scamp's simple list of the ways people feel valuable. 1. Just believing it. Sometimes this is religious, sometimes it is not.… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
It's become such a cultural norm that people brag about it: "Oh yeah, you did that? I did this." Keeping up with… — Brigid Schulte Copy Share Image
“Many buy gadgets they don’t really need, with money they don’t have, for people they don’t actually care for, while infringing their… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
We were keeping up with the Joneses, but we were going against Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. We should have stayed in… — Spencer Pratt Copy Share Image
![“[Keeping Up with the Joneses] is not one of those movies where people get shot and fall down and there's no reality of what would happen if you got shot and knocked over a motorcycle. It's meant to be a slight comedy in that sense.” quote by Greg Mottola](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/685/greg-mottola-18911_comedy_keeping-up-with-the-joneses-is-not-one-o_972867.jpg)
![“We didn't want to make it a parody of Don Draper[in Keeping Up With the Joneses] but we did arrive on this idea that there's a side of Jon Hamm that opens up that would like him to stop living as a professional liar.” quote by Greg Mottola](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6c3/greg-mottola-18911_ideas_we-didn-t-want-to-make-it-a-parody-of-do_2821297.jpg)
![“Jon Hamm was the first I thought of for the other role in [Keeping Up with the Joneses], I recently worked with him on Clear History, an HBO improv movie that we had done together.” quote by Greg Mottola](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4f0/greg-mottola-18911_clear_jon-hamm-was-the-first-i-thought-of-for_700329.jpg)
![“I'm a huge fan of Zach's [Galifianakis] and I auditioned Zach a million years ago on a movie called Duplex which I was fired from. But Zach came in - It was like 2000, maybe - as a buddy stand-up that people were starting to notice and there was something about him I loved. He wasn't quite right…” quote by Greg Mottola](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a12/greg-mottola-18911_buddy_i-m-a-huge-fan-of-zach-s-galifianakis-an_1011792.jpg)
![“They [investment bankers] don't even want the stuff that they've got, you know the fancy cars and houses. Their consumption is basically just a keeping up with the Joneses or let's buy the markers of success because this is what I'm supposed to have and this is what I'm supposed to do. And they…” quote by Larkin Grimm](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8a6/larkin-grimm-21078_bankers_they-investment-bankers-don-t-even-want_2098201.jpg)
