Economics Quote by Brooks Stevens Download Open image “Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.” — Brooks Stevens ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economics Economy Obsolescence Planned obsolescence Whole
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately… — Brooks Stevens Copy Share Image
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now. — Brooks Stevens Copy Share Image
But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people. — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The idea that things should last just doesn't fit the economic model anymore. — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
It drives me crazy to throw something out. I find planned obsolescence revolting. — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
If we could build an economy that would use things rather than use them up, we could build a future. — Ellen MacArthur Copy Share Image
Our economy, I think, is still -- the fundamentals of our economy are strong. — John McCain Copy Share Image
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately… — Brooks Stevens Copy Share Image
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now. — Brooks Stevens Copy Share Image
Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
Our engagement through international economics, trade, these trade agreements, is vital and is linked to our national security. This is a lesson we learned… — Charles Boustany Copy Share Image
“The free-market economy and globalisation process have brought about, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a sharp and sudden rise in the… — Yaakov Malkin Copy Share Image
“Everything economic science posits as given, that is, the range of dispositions of the economic agent which ground the illusion of the ahistorical universality… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
“a select group of high-performing companies have managed to close the strategy-to-performance gap through better planning and execution. These companies—Barclays, Cisco Systems, Dow Chemical,… — Michael C. Mankins Copy Share Image
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
