Trends Quotes - Page 30

• Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Ambition, Erosion

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.229, Penguin

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• People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or dearness must be anchored to something. People tend to view the prices they’re used to as normal and prices removed from these levels as aberrant. This perpective leads people to trade counter to an emerging trend on the assumption that prices will eventually return to “normal”. Therein lies the path to disaster.

  William Eckhardt

  Lying, Views, People

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• If you diversify, control your risk, and go with the trend, it just has to work.

  Larry Hite

  Risk, Ifs

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• I don't follow the food trends.

  Eric Ripert

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• Capitalists have the tendency to move toward those countries in which there is plenty of labor available and at which labor is reasonable. And by the fact that they bring capital into these countries, they bring about a trend toward higher wage rates.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Country, Moving, Facts

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• Trend is not destiny.

  Lewis Mumford

  Destiny

  Lewis Mumford (1928). “Architecture as a home for man: essays for architectural record”

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• What would a church look like that created space for quietness, that bucked the celebrity trend and unplugged from noisy media, that actively resisted our consumer culture? What would worship look like if we directed it more toward God than toward our own amusement?

  Philip Yancey

  Media, Space, Church

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• The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.

  Marc Andreessen

  Numbers, Fads, Behavior

  "Marc Andreessen On The Future Of Enterprise". Interview with Alexia Tsotsis, techcrunch.com. January 27, 2013.

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• There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging.

  Robert Caro

  Real, Government, Feelings

  "Robert Caro: a life with LBJ and the pursuit of power" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2012.

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• In too many modern churches there is no emphasis on theology at all. There is a kind of justification by works or by keeping up with modern trends anything that will drag in a few more people.

  Robertson Davies

  People, Church, Kind

  "Conversations with Robertson Davies". Book by Robertson Davies, "Author Says Messiah Could Be a Woman", 1989.

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• Like most trends, at the beginning it's driven by fundamentals, at some point speculation takes over. What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end.

  Warren Buffett

  Wise, Men, Doe

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• I almost feel like if I didn't have the gallery and museum content it would be easy to get lost. People's attention spans are so short; they see something and it trends for a few days and then it goes away and something else comes.

  Kalup Linzy

  Museums, People, Would Be

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money. The object is to recognize the trend whose premise is false, ride that trend and step off before it is discredited.

  George Soros

  Lying, Economic History, Path

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• Every season, I take the opportunity to convey a much larger message than just hemlines and trends.

  Kenneth Cole

  Opportunity, Messages, Seasons

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  I don't follow trends. I just do what I like and what I can.

  Jadakiss

  I Can

  Source: www.complex.com

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• One thing I can't afford to get sucked up in is the trend formation of restaurants here. I've invested heavily. We have a ten-year lease. More importantly, the style, the feel and the décor of the dining room is vibrant.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Years, Style, Dining

  Source: www.crushable.com

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• Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?

  Tablo

  Culture, Lasting Impressions, Knows

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• It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.

  Meg Whitman

  Moving On, Zero, Communication

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• [Molecular gastronomy] was a great trend, because it experimented with food. The benchmark was [former elBulli head chef] Ferran Adrià, and now he is no longer there it is harder to gauge.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Gauges, Chef, Harder

  Source: www.esquireme.com

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• In some ways, Trump is just going to continue the trend: by continuing the norm-smashing behaviour that Republicans used in opposition.

  Jonathan Chait

  Behaviour, Way, Republican

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We've had these bursts of cool years here or there but that's not change. That's a trend. You only hope that this could be the beginning of true change.

  Ava DuVernay

  Years

  Source: deadline.com

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• Trump's election is part of an international trend that's no less alarming, in Britain, in France, in Germany, in Austria. Vladimir Putin wanted to see this outcome no less than he would like to see nationalists and anti-Europeanists win in France.

  David Remnick

  Winning, France, Germany

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Growth in productivity has diverged from growth in the share that working people can expect right across advanced economies, but this trend started earlier and has been more pronounced in the U.S.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  People, Growth, Economy

  Source: www.salon.com

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• To look at long term trends in our economy, in our society, in the international sphere and using my best judgment, shape policies that will serve the American people, keep them safe, keep our economy growing, put people back to work.

  Barack Obama

  Long, People, Looks

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• We have a reversal of a longstanding trend, from rising inequality across nations and constant or declining inequality within nations, to declining inequality across nations and rising inequality within them.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Rising, Inequality, Constant

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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