Consumers Quotes - Page 19

• As consumer adoption of wireless devices continues to soar, Wi-Fi congestion is becoming a critical problem for consumers and innovators.

  Julius Genachowski

  Adoption, Becoming, Problem

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• Technological advances have always been driven more by a mind-set of 'I can' than 'I should' Technologists love to cram maximum functionality into their products. That's 'I can' thinking, which is driven by peer competition and market forces But this approach ignores the far more important question of how the consumer will actually use the device focus on what we should be doing, not just what we can.

  John Maeda

  Thinking, Focus, Competition

  Manifesto by John Maeda, www.esquire.com. September 18, 2008.

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• If the milk industry can make their product seem sexy and increase consumer demand, there must be hope for music.

  Gary Arnold

  Sexy, Demand, Milk

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• The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Ideas, Trump

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• I also saw a huge expansion of the Internet, with many major corporations, afraid of being left behind, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop World Wide Web sites in a frantic scramble to reach the vast new consumer market of Web use

  Dave Barry

  Expansion, Dollars, Use

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• Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.

  Terence McKenna

  Silly, People, Mind Blowing

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• Experiencing a massage therapy session is its own best advertisement for changing perceptions. A recent national consumer survey found Americans had overwhelmingly positive feelings about their massage experience. Ninety-four percent express favorable feelings. Fully 85 percent expressed very favorable feelings about their most recent massage, with 37 percent rating it a perfect ten-out-of-ten. What is striking is that there are very few detractors. Most of those who haven't yet received a massage simply haven't felt a need for it

  Bob Benson

  Perfect, Feelings, Perception

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• Decorating in relation to hotels is really nothing more than planned showmanship or the art of attracting attention in a delightful way and thus creating an increased consumer acceptance. It gives the guest the feeling of anticipation, excitement, expectancy, delight, and pride in the management of his favorit hotel.

  Dorothy Draper

  Art, Pride, Acceptance

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• "Solid wastes" are the discarded leftovers of our advanced consumer society. This growing mountain of garbage and trash represents not only an attitude of indifference toward valuable natural resources, but also a serious economic and public health problem.

  Jimmy Carter

  Attitude, Mountain, Growing

  Carter, Jimmy (1977). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977”, p.972, Best Books on

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• If you run a business, put on top your employees, then your consumers, and then your shareholders.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Powerful, Employee

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• Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity

  Clay Shirky

  Mean, Identity, Behavior

  Clay Shirky (2008). “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations”, p.71, Penguin

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• The 'futures' and 'careers' for which American students now prepare are for the most part intellectual and moral wastelands. This chrome-plated consumers' paradise would have us grow up to be well-behaved children. But an important minority of men and women coming to the front today have shown they will die rather than be standardized, replaceable, and irrelevant.

  Mario Savio

  Children, Growing Up, Men

  Mario Savio, Eugene Walker, Raya Dunayevskaya (1965). “The Free Speech Movement and the Negro revolution”

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• Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

  David Riesman

  Occupation, Today

  David Riesman (1950). “The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character”

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• We as consumers really do have the right to know what's in our food.

  Gary Hirshberg

  Knows

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• Consumers have to understand that the purpose of these claims is to get them to buy the product.

  Marion Nestle

  Purpose, Claims, Products

  "The Worst Thing Since White Bread" by Ali Cherry, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2014.

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• Restaurants that have health-conscious consumers will pay attention to this.

  Marion Nestle

  Attention, Pay, Conscious

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• The main goal is not to complicate the already difficult life of the consumer.

  Raymond Loewy

  Goal, Experience, Difficult

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• The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribble -- to sleep and cook and walk in the woods, to sit and stare at the shapes of the hills. I produce nothing but words; I consumer nothing but food, a little propane, a little firewood. By being utterly useless in the calculations of the culture at large I become useful, at last, to myself.

  Philip Connors

  Sleep, Thinking, Mountain

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• You can’t change the world, but you can change yourself. That adage suits consumer capitalism perfectly, since the illusion of changing ourselves is a successfully maintained through shopping.

  Madeleine Bunting

  Shopping, World, Suits

  "The end is nigh" by Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2001.

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• The consumer is both culprit and victim of the confusion on quality.

  Nino Cerruti

  Confusion, Quality, Victim

  Interview with Matthieu Guinebault, uk.fashionnetwork.com. October 2, 2012.

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• I am expecting that consumers are going to continue and exert power and influence. The idea of radical transparency is something that few brands are taking advantage of now, and most brands fight it. I’d say that in 10 years the best brands won’t be those with the best stories, sort of made up fictional stories, but those that will give an accurate and real time picture of what they are doing in the interest of the consumer, in any given time.

  Alex Bogusky

  Real, Fighting, Years

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• Consumers never complain about ads being too smart.

  Lee Clow

  Smart, Complaining, Ads

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• We didn't see any statistically significant relationship between our buzz and our short-term sales...Is that the end of the story? I would say no. This is one study on a set of brands in a particular company within a certain segment of the consumer-packag ed-goods industry. It is by no means a generalized result that applies to all industries.

  Eric Schmidt

  Mean, Stories, Buzz

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• The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.

  Stuart Chase

  Business, Games, Effort

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• Increasingly, consumers don't search for products and services. Rather, services come to their attention via social media.

  Erik Qualman

  Media, Attention, Social

  "More marketers use social networking to reach customers" by Jon Swartz, abcnews.go.com.

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