Endeavor Quote by Gottfried Leibniz

We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Collecting is more than just buying objects.

— Eli Broad

When so rich a harvest is before us, why do we not gather it? All is in our hands if we will but use…

— Elizabeth Ann Seton

“Collecting expresses a free-floating desire that attaches and re-attaches itself—it is a succession of desires. The true collector is in the grip not of…

— Susan Sontag

“Goods of production—material or immaterial—such as land, factories, practical or artistic skills, oblige their possessors to employ them in ways that will benefit the…

— Libreria Editrice Vaticana

If you are collector, let other people share your pride and joy. Don't sprinkle your collection out of sight in a meaningless jumble. Notice…

— Dorothy Draper

Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected… Hoarding is idolatry.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Our myopic focus on producing and consuming as cheaply as possible has created a linear economy in which objects are briefly used and then…

— Frans van Houten

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not…

— David Ricardo

People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.

— Norman Mailer

There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.

— Marge Piercy

“According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purchased with it, bears a greater or smaller proportion to the number of those who are…

— Adam Smith