Consumers Quotes - Page 38

• Everything is deeply affected by the dominant culture. Consumerism is huge in the US. This is by far the wealthiest [nation], but also the biggest consumer in the world. Which means that a lot of things get used, a lot of things get wasted, and a lot of things get churned out in ways that are wasteful.

  Wangechi Mutu

  Mean, Way, Culture

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What does a professional photojournalist do that others cannot? Depicting photo opportunities as if they are authentic, covering press conferences, or making subjects play their assigned roles (the poor as passive victims, celebrities as glamorous) are hardly adequate responses. In fact, these might be reasons to ask for the help of amateurs who do not know how to stylize their imagery and are not interested in making a publication seem more palatable to its potential consumers.

  Fred Ritchin

  Opportunity, Play, Covering

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• This is the crisis! Difficulty getting credit, slow growth, high unemployment, low consumer confidence-these are challenges entrepreneurs can overcome with hard work, smart risk and tenacious teamwork. This is precisely what entrepreneurs do!

  Oliver DeMille

  Teamwork, Smart, Hard Work

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• I should come with a consumer warning, like the labels that say "Handle with care" or "May be hazardous to your health." I am unfit for human consumption. I struggle to articulate how awful and isolating this feels, but I can't find the words.

  Martha Manning

  Struggle, Labels, Warning

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• [For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Country, Ignorance, Rivers

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• One of many challenges is of course to create a legal basis for copyright issues that's up to date with both modern distribution, consumer behavior and the rights and needs of creators and copyright holders.

  Lisa Langseth

  Rights, Issues, Challenges

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I just think we as consumers of information media must be very clear what it is we are consuming. Whether we are choosing to get our information by listening to people fight about it. Or whether we're choosing to get it by listening to the facts or watching the facts as they're laid out and then reaching our own conclusions. It's very different ways of info gathering, but it's not all journalism.

  Gwen Ifill

  Fighting, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• They don't want art that might actually change the community. They just want consumers. They don't want people to manufacture things. They'll do the manufacturing, and they just need people to buy it, need youth to buy it.

  Malik Yusef

  Art, People, Community

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

  Umberto Eco

  Morning, Reading, Paper

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• By the time we, consumers, are aware of processes like genetic engineering, they're already being done. It's sort of like the war in Iraq: By the time we know about it, it's almost a fait accompli. And that's certainly true with science.

  Ruth Ozeki

  War, Engineering, Iraq

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• Service disruptions have to be avoided or at least resolved as quickly as possible. When the Internet goes down, consumers don't notice the difference between a technical malfunction, an act of sabotage by hackers or a military attack.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Military, Differences, Internet

  "SPIEGEL Interview with German Interior Minister: 'WikiLeaks Is Annoying, But Not a Threat'". Interview with Holger Stark and Marcel Rosenbach,, www.spiegel.de. December 20, 2010.

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• The entire EU has labeling for GMOs, and is simply saying let's let consumers know what they're buying, let's let them choose. I think it's a huge mistake by the food manufacturers of America not to be saying let's let consumers know. Let's let them know, let them decide.

  Peter Shumlin

  Mistake, Thinking, Gmos

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• American consumers are not saying they will not buy GMO foods. What they're saying is "I want to know. I want to know." EU consumers are much happier because they know what they're buying, and they've seen a continued increase in sales.

  Peter Shumlin

  Gmo Foods, Gmos, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As a writer of criticism, the consumer thing is the least interesting thing, but as a critic, the single worst thing you can do is send a reader to waste time and money on something - even if it's something you personally love. You have to indicate the reasons why you love it and they'll hate it.

  Jonathan Gold

  Hate, Love You, Interesting

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• In theory, it makes a lot of sense to combine the two operations, especially on the back end. But merging the two actual portal consumer experiences into a unified site will be a nightmare.

  Charlene Li

  Two, Portal, Nightmare

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• I think that it will be the mobile technologies, both from the enterprise and the consumer side, where super unicorns will come from. I still believe that social networking in combination with mobile will create opportunities for super unicorns.

  David Sze

  Believe, Technology, Opportunity

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• Consumers view of you is not about how they compare you to other banks. It's about how they compare you to all of the other businesses they experience.

  Jim Gilmore

  Views, Compare

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• I think of myself as just another consumer.

  Roelof Botha

  Thinking

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• Why is Caterpillar bad if we create a new job in India or China to receive U.S. exports? It makes no sense to me. We want to drive all the exports we can from the United States. We want to concentrate on all those consumers, outside contractors, customers outside the United States that we possibly can.

  Douglas R Oberhelman

  Jobs, New Job, Want

  "Caterpillar CEO: Higher taxes do not stimulate anything". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2012.

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• Giving people what they want reduces us to consumers instead of treating us like citizens, consumers who are on the prowl for the predictable and comfortable. What we want winds up being suspiciously like what we've already got, more of the same-the cultural equivalent of a warm bath.

  Astra Taylor

  Wind, People, Giving

  Astra Taylor (2014). “The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age”, p.93, Macmillan

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• Branding is not merely about differentiating products; it is about striking emotional chords with consumers. It is about cultivating identity, attachment, and trust to inspire customer loyalty. Chinese brands score low on attributes such as “sophisticated,” “desirable,” “innovative,” “friendly,” and “trustworthy.”

  Nirmalya Kumar

  Loyalty, Emotional, Attachment

  "Can You Name a Chinese Brand?" by Nirmalya Kumar, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2013.

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• Many innovations fail because consumers irrationally overvalue the old while companies irrationally overvalue the new.

  Nir Eyal

  Innovation, Failing, Company

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.17, Penguin

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• News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving.

  Gracia Martore

  News, Growing, Want

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• Maintaining the trust of the consumer is critical to our business

  Jeremy Stoppelman

  Maintaining, Critical

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• Content is the emotional and informational bridge between commerce and consumer.

  Jay Baer

  Emotional, Bridges, Commerce

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