Economics Quote by Brooks Stevens

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

— Brooks Stevens

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

Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.

— Robert Orben

An actual understanding of our economy is that our economy most depends on our rate of innovation... It's not actually understood by most of…

— Chris Gabrieli

Obsolescence is the key to innovation.

— Homaro Cantu

“Our entire economy is based on productivity measures that have little to do with “human input”. Sooner or later the entire system will collapse…

— Said Elias Dawlabani

Our economy, I think, is still -- the fundamentals of our economy are strong.

— John McCain

“An economy is a "noosphere" (a mind-based system), and it can revive as quickly as minds and policies can change.”

— George Gilder

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

— Barack Obama

Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress.

— Henry Ford II

The idea that things should last just doesn't fit the economic model anymore.

— Johann Johannsson

“All-access consumerism is likely finished... This is a permanent change for Americans, who will face a declining standard of living over the next 20 years.”

— Gordon Laird