New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures are bringing forward such traits as pleasure-mindedness, self-indulgence, materialism, and passivity as conspicuous elements of… — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
In the field of marketing . . . the trend toward selling [has] reached something of a nadir with the unveiling . . .… — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat. — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwise, many began… — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
At one of the largest advertising agencies in America psychologists on the staff are probing sample humans in an attempt to find how to… — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly. — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer. — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these… — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform… — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
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