That job gave him little gratification.

He who seeks order shall find gratification.

He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed.

And in exchange, they gave you ego gratification.

These days even instant gratification takes too long. (Laughter)

One is the sex drive the craving for sexual gratification.

And it is a most edifying form of instant gratification.

He had the gratification of seeing his son graduate from collage.

He just thinks about the here and now and the immediate gratification.

Those resources went from, frankly, someone who just wanted some ego gratification.

But instead, they spent one hour dancing for you for your ego gratification.

What you see before you is the latest fashion in full sensory gratification.

And in America it was called Our Final Hour because Americans like instant gratification.

What does it have to do with time and savings, this issue of immediate gratification?

Whether you think about immediate gratification, and the chocolates versus bananas, it's just painful to save now.

Seth, most of us do work where every month, we produce something we get that kind of gratification.

But if you want to reach the very top, you should delay gratification and, of course, become a politician.

While consumption is capital that is, essentially, being burned in some way, usually for some type of social status or ego gratification.

That is, they require interest rates in the hundred or thousands of percents in order to delay gratification and wait until next month for the extra 10 dollars.

The idea of prestige or self gratification aren't big movers for a lot of the women, but they do respond often to the idea of the impact of why it matters?

let's say every January you're going to be saving more automatically and it's going to go away from your paycheck to the 401(k) plan before you see it, before you touch it, before you get the issue of immediate gratification.

One of the really interesting things is that some of the kids that struggle during the day are some of our most talented strummers, and it gives them a feeling of success and gratification that they may not get in a traditional setting.

I don't even think this is, necessarily, a bad idea because, frankly, this is just the transfer of wealth from someone who needs ego gratification to a transfer of wealth from someone who's willing to do fairly simple things to, essentially, take that wealth from them.