Consumers Quotes - Page 31

• the bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a stale one will give him pain.

  Rebecca West

  Pain, Evil, Giving

  Rebecca West (2010). “A Train of Powder”, p.62, Open Road Media

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• Foremost is the principle that the purpose of consumer research is to understand the customer's needs and wishes, and thus design product and service that will provide better living for him in the future. A second principle is that no one can guess the future loss of business from a dissatisfied customer.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Loss, Design, Wish

  "Out Of The Crisis". Book by W. Edwards Deming, p. 175, 1982.

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• Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became a major industry and the middle class bought radios to hear the ads and cars to get to the stores. ... But there is no question that the consumer culture had begun to crowd out all other cultural possibilities by the years following World War II.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  War, Years, Class

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon

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• the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.

  Shana Alexander

  Bags, Plastic, Metabolism

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing. ... I don't blame men for this. Men seem to go for us no matter what size and shape we are. I blame capitalism. No, really. The consumer must constantly be in a state of anxious low self-esteem so that she will constantly buy lipsticks and girdles to make her feel cuter.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Self Esteem, Men, Trying

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• The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make room in his soul.

  Mary McCarthy

  Soul, Today, Rooms

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The Humanist in the Bathtub”

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• It's silly for me to raise expectations too much, but I think I'm right on the basic trend, which is shifting power to consumers.

  Steve Case

  Silly, Thinking, Expectations

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• For the consumer, fashion is fashion. You can buy something beautiful for $20 and you can buy something ugly for $1,000. It comes down to style. As far as the industry as a whole, it is hard to say. I don't like to separate the worlds.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Beautiful, Fashion, Style

  Source: www.sassisamblog.com

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• Many companies are disappointing the citizens of this world by manipulating labor rates, putting horse meat instead of beef out there, or thinking it's totally acceptable to make a T-shirt from a collapsing factory. Increasingly, people don't want to work for these companies, and consumers don't want to buy from them.

  Paul Polman

  Horse, Thinking, People

  "Unilever chief Paul Polman wants to orient company for the long term". Interview with Lillian Cunningham, www.smh.com.au. May 25, 2015.

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• My biggest fear is that I become useless or less useful by not being up to date - be it with technology, changing consumers, changing global situations. You continuously have to have a little level of paranoia that forces you to set the bar higher every day.

  Paul Polman

  Technology, Bars, Useless

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• Humor and absurdism are inevitable. If you look at our current massive flow of consumer products and digital communication and related media from a sort of astute perspective and carefully state what you see you can't help but sounding like you're joking.

  Aaron Belz

  Communication, Media, Perspective

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.

  Aaron Belz

  Fall, Thinking, Hair

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• I find it ironic that now water is more expensive than music. On the one hand, record companies can't go crying when they've gouged consumers for decades, charging exorbitant prices for CDs that cost 29 cents to make. On the other hand, when music is free, musicians starve.

  Tom Morello

  Hands, Cds, Water

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• if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.

  Anita Roddick

  Business, Making Money, Profit

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• Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.

  Anita Roddick

  Bollywood, Underestimate, Consumerism

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• The power of consumer goods . . . has been engendered by the so-called liberal and progressive demands of freedom, and, by appropriating them, has emptied them of their meaning, and changed their nature.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Demand, Progressive, Changed

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• Art gives man a reminder that he is not just a consumer but a creator as well. It awakens in him the urge to struggle and perform great deeds; it fills him with the craving to pass on the Promethean fire to generations to come.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Art, Struggle, Men

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• If pornographers can hook adolescents when their hormones are raging, they know they'll have an ongoing consumer base for life.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Hook, Ongoing, Rage

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• We're over-delivering value against other choices I think consumers can get.

  Don Mattrick

  Xbox, Thinking, Choices

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• The primary driver of final consumer demand is, of course, the level of disposable income.

  Peter Dicken

  Finals, Income, Levels

  Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.475, SAGE

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• Debt, weve learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains - pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies - but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage.

  Andrew Ross Sorkin

  Fire, Agency, Light

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• What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market economy.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Economic, Economy, Sovereignty

  "Liberty and Property". Book by Ludwig von Mises, October 15, 1958.

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• The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always perceive a dark subtext. The words haunt me. It comes across as humorous to the reader/audience, but in fact the words really do make me a little bit queasy. Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.

  Aaron Belz

  Lying, Fall, Humorous

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• If you're going to change the food system, there is a lot that you, the consumer, can do on your own; but in the end, it will be very important to make changes at the national level.

  Michael Pollan

  Important, Levels, Making Changes

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

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• We could have a greener economy, even a greener consumer economy by changing the rules - whether it's by taxing carbon or trading carbon, I'm not sure what - but in the end there's just a fundamental problem with the sheer amount we're consuming.

  Michael Pollan

  Fundamentals, Problem, Economy

  Source: therumpus.net

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