Technological advances have always been driven more by a mind-set of 'I can' than 'I should' Technologists love to cram maximum functionality… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Availability of the best also is limited in our culture. And it's also extremely expensive. It's ridiculous. A kilogram of rose oil… — Horst Rechelbacher Copy Share Image
If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be… — Stuart Rose Copy Share Image
We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Since I'm a mother and a wife, I have to have passion or the frustration would win out. But I love managing… — Andrea Jung Copy Share Image
Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
... In a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism - the consumer advocates of ideas. Debunking is not simply the… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I have read a great deal of economic theory for over 50 years now, but have found only one economic "law" to… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Foremost is the principle that the purpose of consumer research is to understand the customer's needs and wishes, and thus design product… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Behind the criticism of fashion as an artistic medium is a highly ideological prejudice: against markets, against consumers, against the dynamism of… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
We could have a greener economy, even a greener consumer economy by changing the rules - whether it's by taxing carbon or… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If you voluntarily label a product as being unsuitable for kids and then turn around and market it directly to kids in… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
The fast growing markets - the BRICS and Next Eleven - are the key. The next billion consumers are not going to… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
The dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness are contrary to the order of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capitalist production… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
I think the biggest reason otherwise radical people don't want to face the necessity of ending industrial civilization is privilege. We're the… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
America always put forth this phony melting pot theory, but it's a reality now. They couldn't accomplish the melting pot economically; they… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Human beings aren't meant to be solely consumers - eventually, something has to come out. Otherwise, I don't really see what the… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
“When the poor are converted into consumers, they get more than access to products and services. They acquire the dignity of attention… — C.K. Prahalad Copy Share Image
As the run-by-capital society of producers turned since into the run-by-capital society of consumers, I would say that the main, indeed "meta",… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
The consumers are merciless. They never buy in order to benefit a less efficient producer and to protect him against the consequences… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I called for a consumer protection financial bureau before it was created. And I think the best evidence that the Wall Street… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In the desktop world, you could build a successful business where a consumer only came back to you once or maybe twice… — John Collison Copy Share Image
At a macro level, it's balancing the needs of consumers, advertisers and content owners. And if you talk to any one of… — Jason Kilar Copy Share Image
We're not citizens anymore. We're consumers. That's what we're called. It's just like being an alcoholic and being in denial that you're… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
In a consumer society, expectations dare not plateau, because a growing economy depends on rising expectations... The more we let our level… — Paul Brand Copy Share Image
Of course I'm troubled by huge consumer debt levels - we've pushed consumer credit very hard in the US. Eventually, if it… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The broken consumer credit market had to be repaired by making sure that consumers had the right information and could use it… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices. You might not like that Facebook shares… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
In the last century the practice of medicine has become no more than an adjunct to the pharmaceutical industry and the other… — Vernon Coleman Copy Share Image
Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
A cap and trade bill will likely increase the costs of electricity. . . . These costs will be passed on to… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
Despite a lingering low inventory and increasing prices, consumers still have the confidence to purchase a home. More and more people recognize… — Dave Liniger Copy Share Image
