Consumers Quotes - Page 34

I believe that online paid content hasn't worked for general circulation newspapers because consumers weren't ready for it, because the implementation did not deliver enough value, because content was typically the same as in the print version, and because much of the material was being syndicted by the papers to other publishers or was not protected with DRM technologies to exclude use by others.

Robert G. Picard

Believe, Technology, Drm

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The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these.

Jean Baudrillard

Flirting, Shopping, Synthesis

Jean Baudrillard, Francesco Proto, Keith Broadfoot (2006). “Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard”, Academy Press

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G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric.

Erik Brynjolfsson

Metrics, Welfare, Should

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Diesel pioneered the idea of luxury denim, and we still drive this market. But it encompasses more: the consumers love the brand, the lifestyle, the mentality of Diesel.

Renzo Rosso

Ideas, Luxury, Denim

"Renzo Rosso: No Stopping His Engine". Interview with Colleen Nika, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 17, 2009.

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Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of play culture imposed by adults.

David Elkind

Children, Play, Toys

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By competition the total amount of supply is increased, and by increase of the supply a competition in the sale ensues, and this enables the consumer to buy at lower rates. Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

Henry Clay

Competition, Affair, Increase

Henry Clay (1843). “The Life and Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay ...”, p.37

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While the demand for organic food outstrips supply, we happen to know that 77 percent of consumers don't want genetically engineered crops grown in this country. Consumers can choose whether or not to buy organic produce. Genetically modified ingredients will deny us choice in the long run.

Prince Charles

Running, Country, Food

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Cabinet members are soon overwhelmed by the insistent demands of running their departments. On the whole, a period in high office consumers intellectual capital; it does not create it....The less ministers know at the outset, the more dependent they are on the only sources of available knowledge; the permanent officials.

Tony Benn

Running, Office, Intellectual

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The industrial world would be a more peaceful place if workers were called in as collaborators in the process of establishing standards and defining shop practices, matters which surely affect their interests and well-being fully as much as they affect those of employers and consumers.

Mary Barnett Gilson

Practice, Peaceful, Matter

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Marketers know - no matter how deep the emotional connection or brand loyalty - when a product does not perform, rational thought overtakes emotion, and most consumers make a new choice.

Mark McKinnon

Loyalty, Emotional, Choices

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Studios felt like Blu-ray was going to be the next panacea, and so they dumped the prices (of traditional DVDs) and devalued the product. That's a misreading of consumer behavior as well as a misreading of the economic environment.

Bill Mechanic

Dvds, Next, Rays

Source: www.thewrap.com

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Do whatever you want in the back room of pharmacies, but keep it away from consumers.

Katherine Albrecht

Want, Rooms, Pharmacy

"Viagra Tag Could Be Bitter Pill". www.wired.com. January 18, 2006.

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What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.

Billy Bragg

Corporations, Argument, Offers

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In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.

Saul Griffith

Mean, Long, Design

"Built to Last". GOOD Magazine Interview, www.good.is. January 14, 2010.

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When you have a lot of construction going on, it sends a message of vitality that builds up consumer confidence. It gets people to spend money when they see that energy, that things are happening.

Mick Cornett

People, Energy, Vitality

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... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods.

Toni Cade Bambara

Intelligent, Men, Emotional

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An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no pornographic intention or effect because "it leaves everything to the imagination." The consumer has to invent his own images, and it is felt, I do not know with what justification, that there is no harm in this.

Herbert Read

Art, Imagination, Erotic

Herbert Read (2005). “To Hell With Culture”, p.152, Routledge

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[The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is directed.

Kenneth E. Boulding

Order, Economic, Made

"Innovation by Demand". Book by Andrew McMeekin, p. 131, 2002.

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[on the theory of the firm] It is exactly analogous to the analysis of the reactions of a consumer by means of indifferent curves. Indeed, a consumer is merely a 'firm' whose product is 'utility.'

Kenneth E. Boulding

Mean, Curves, Analysis

"The theory of the firm in the last ten Years" by Kenneth E. Boulding in "The American Economic Review", Volume 32, No. 4 (pp. 791-802), December 1942.

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Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clean air and water. Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we shall end up in affluent misery.

John W. Gardner

Mean, School, Cutting

John W. Gardner (1971). “The Recovery of Confidence”

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The lady ... is not a producer; in most communities productive labor is by consent unladylike. On the other hand she is the heaviest of consumers, and theorists have not been wanting to maintain that the more she spends the better off society is.

Emily James Smith Putnam

Hands, Community, Producers

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The question isn't whether or not to censor artists who espouse misogynistic views. The question is whether or not we support them as listeners and consumers.

Dessa Darling

Artist, Views, Support

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People need to buy and want to. The selling itself becomes the entertainment, the sought-after good... In the Internet world there won't be any other way to peddle. To be successful advertising itself will have to supply real value to the consumer.

Peter W. Huber

Real, Successful, People

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We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession.

Brad Pitt

Obsession, Lifestyle, Products

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She had me at Sweet Valley High. Gay playfully crosses the borders between pop culture consumer and critic, between serious academic and lighthearted sister-girl, between despair and optimism, between good and bad. . . . How can you help but love her?

Melissa Harris-Perry

Girl, Sweet, Gay

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