Consumerism Quote by Frans van Houten

...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never…

— Brian D. McLaren

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

— Sally Phillips

We can survive without having to be consumer-based all the time.

— Bhumika Chawla

Google is a consumer brand and people need to be comfortable. If we were just an advertising brand we wouldn't have the same concerns.…

— Susan Wojcicki

“For a consumer brand to succeed, it doesn’t just need technical excellence and value; it needs a prolonged superiority in mindspace and shelfspace.”

— Greg Thain

As a responsible consumer brand, we have not just built for the short term, but build for longer-term relationships.

— Ritesh Agarwal

“Technology, variety where appropriate, advertising muscle and consumer understanding are the key benefits for manufacturer brands, and each is highly sensitive to economies of…

— Greg Thain

Clearly in the eyes of the consumer; the brand has not been diluted, but we must guard against that happening at all costs.

— Richard Branson

Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing.

— John O'Donohue

“Capitalism, far from affording "privileges" to the middle classes, tends to degrade them more abjectly than any other stratum in society. The system deploys…

— Murray Bookchin

“The phrase "consumer society" complements the description of the present social order as an "industrial society." Needs are tailored by the mass media to…

— Murray Bookchin

“Salesmanship is usually the art of making it the prospect’s problem, the salesperson’s need or desire to earn money.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put something in…

— Jeff Koons

if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise.

— Johnnetta B. Cole

I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,…

— Bruce Springsteen