Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
“Within successful enterprises, whether they are products, personalities, a political or social cause, or a civic community lurks an intangible. In fact,… — Patrick Hanlon Copy Share Image
When the vast baby-boom generation exploded into adolescence in the 1960s, marketers exulted. Advertising consultants, always eager to coin a phrase, began… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Google and Facebook, each in their own way, have revolutionized the delivery of advertising based on search and social networking, creating a… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
Corporations, consumers, and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
People underestimate the power of the Internet. For some consumers, it is the source of all information. Younger adults are on their… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
This is the crisis! Difficulty getting credit, slow growth, high unemployment, low consumer confidence-these are challenges entrepreneurs can overcome with hard work,… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Excess consumption doesn't make people happy. We can continue to provide for our needs, but we can't continue the endless pursuit of… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
I was a woman and younger. I started spending a lot of time in the mall doing a lot of qualitative research… — Kirsten Green Copy Share Image
Consumers fall in love with a brand and it's important for a brand to develop and stretch itself to provide for their… — Renzo Rosso Copy Share Image
All the consumer market mojo is with Apple and to a lesser extent BlackBerry. And yet, the real market momentum with operators… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
It's certainly sobering to think that British consumers waste roughly a quarter of the food we buy. Or to put it another… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
We're in a classic demand-shortfall recession. There aren't enough jobs because total spending is too low. Consumers won't lead the way because… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
Students need to learn how to unlearn those elements of a market driven society that deform their sense of agency, reducing them… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
To meet the huge consumer demand for fish, the industry can no longer rely on hunting wild fish. Now we are doing… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
When combining the elements on the Total Guide Solution, we believe we are positioning it to be the starting point for consumers… — Alfred Amoroso Copy Share Image
I think the whole thing is kind of sad, honestly, in the same way that our civilization - particularly the consumers of… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers… — Hjalmar Schacht Copy Share Image
The oil companies are really making a very lucrative amount of profit from the high price of oil. I don't that they're… — Ahmed Zaki Yamani Copy Share Image
As a believer in the free market, the sooner you have people with a job - the better chance they have a… — Carlos Lopez-Cantera Copy Share Image
The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent;… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What does a tax do? It takes either from the producer or the consumer a more or less sizable portion of the… — Gustave de Molinari Copy Share Image
If you understand cause and effect, it brings about a set of insights that leads you to a very different place. The… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
If old consumers were assumed to be passive, then new consumers are active. If old consumers were predictable and stayed where you… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
I don't think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There is a real connection between culture and climate change. We all have a part to play and if you engage with… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
How much do you as a consumer value a positive experience with a brand or its customer service department? How willing are… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time… — Jack Valenti Copy Share Image
The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable,… — Justin Sane Copy Share Image
Voluntary actions by corporations should not go beyond innovative win - win 'no regrets' initiatives. Greenhouse gas control practices that are uneconomic… — Robert L. Bradley, Jr Copy Share Image
I believe strongly that the opportunity is here for us in America to finally have a healthcare system that we can really… — Max Baucus Copy Share Image
When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image