In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off. — John Stossel Copy Share Image
In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
I like cars that are ahead of their times, and that were noble failures because they were built to a higher standard… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
As president of Common Cause, I joined a coalition of groups ranging from the Christian Coalition to Consumers Union, and we went… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1… — Edgar Bronfman, Jr Copy Share Image
All I am asking is that we follow the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."… — Ken Caldeira Copy Share Image
You have to live with your product, you have to know it through and through, you have to look at it, understand… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
It [the pharmaceutical industry] is the most profitable industry in the world, and partially funds the US government. It surpasses oil in… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
Letting the free market do whatever it wants. That's not been historically how we grow. We have to invest in education, in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Companies and their brands need to reach out and speak directly to consumers, to honor their values, and to form meaningful relationships… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
A very complicated mass of things influences the economy - the speculative effect, government policy, consumer borrowing and spending, the level of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
The consumer has become increasingly sophisticated in the way they obtain and digest information - of the simple reason that they've become… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
Nothing can prevent the united consumer from working for themselves with the aid of mutual credit, from building factories, workshops, houses for… — Gustav Landauer Copy Share Image
Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
What advertisers call brand loyalty is merely the consumer's defense against the need to waste energy differentiating among things that barely differ. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
If pornographers can hook adolescents when their hormones are raging, they know they'll have an ongoing consumer base for life. — Donna Rice Hughes Copy Share Image
I think that the balance needs to be restored, and I would note that in the camp in which I am in,… — Rick Boucher Copy Share Image
Consumers do not view communications in isolation. They bring with them all their past brand experiences and associations. — Josh Hunt Copy Share Image
God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving. — Gracia Martore Copy Share Image
Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others. It is not really about… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data. — Jared Sandberg Copy Share Image
Consumers no longer want only a great product - they want to buy products from companies that align with their own character… — Muhtar Kent Copy Share Image
More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice. — Tadashi Yanai Copy Share Image
The landscape for business isn’t changing because of social media, it’s changing because consumer expectations are evolving. — Brian Solis Copy Share Image
When a positive exchange between a brand and customers becomes quantifiable metrics, it encourages brand to provide better service, customer service to… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what the fair tax does, it empowers the consumer and it lets people have their whole paycheck and it… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
A social contract is the way out of this dilemma for corporations that want to lead in the 21st century by showing… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.… — Michael D. Barnes Copy Share Image
The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Here in particular the idea of contextual communication - i.e. communicating the right message, at the right time to the right audience… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
“Some consumers buy products not because they are ‘better” in any way, but simply because they are popular. What they’re buying is… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is it is what consumers tell each other it is. -… — Scott Cook Copy Share Image
But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will… — Jay Chiat Copy Share Image