"Persuasion has become a kind of force. The……" — Virginia Postrel
"Persuasion has become a kind of force. The more the advertiser knows about what consumers want, and the more desires the product and packaging seek to fulfill, the more coercive the force."
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80 Quotes by Virginia Postrel
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Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.
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Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a…
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Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs…
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The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating…
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Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.
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European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities…
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At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things…
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Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.
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Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is…
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The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future…
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We know we need bosses and deadlines to help us get work done. But sometimes we can also use an…
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As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have…
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More Advertiser Quotes
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Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day.…
— Bruce Barton
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I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.
— Jeff Bezos
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In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering…
— Les Brown
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As you know, in the past several years, month after month, radio has increased its revenues - some of it…
— Casey Kasem
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If you don't make a conscious choice... someone else will decide for you. It may be your boss, a family…
— Steve Pavlina
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What the advertiser needs to know is not what is right about the product but what is wrong about the…
— Neil Postman
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Despite being able to demonstrate a very large audience, major advertisers at first wouldn't touch Limbaugh.
— Paul Weyrich
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One thing that hasn’t changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before…
— Roy H. Williams
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The American advertiser has made the superior American magazine of today possible.
— Edward Bok
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The fact must never be forgotten that no magazine publisher in the United States could give what it is giving…
— Edward Bok
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The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn't strictly with people and audiences. It's also with advertisers, and that's…
— Robert Waterman McChesney
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The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into…
— Todd Gitlin
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