Vance Packard

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done

— Vance Packard

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

— Vance Packard

You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.

— Vance Packard

In the field of marketing . . . the trend toward selling [has] reached something of a nadir with the unveiling .…

— Vance Packard

Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.

— Vance Packard

If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is…

— Vance Packard

As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwise,…

— Vance Packard

At one of the largest advertising agencies in America psychologists on the staff are probing sample humans in an attempt to find…

— Vance Packard

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

— Vance Packard

The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

— Vance Packard

New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role.…

— Vance Packard

Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends…

— Vance Packard

The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail…

— Vance Packard

“You can probably make them do anything for you: Sell people things they don’t need; make women who don’t know you fall…

— Vance Packard