Consumers Quotes - Page 18

• There is a real connection between culture and climate change. We all have a part to play and if you engage with life, you will get a new set of values, get off the consumer treadmill, and start to think, and it is these great thinkers who will rescue the planet.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Real, Thinking, Play

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• Over the past 60 years, marketing has moved from being product-centric (Marketing 1.0) to being consumer-centric (Marketing 2.0). Today we see marketing as transforming once again in response to the new dynamics in the environment. We see companies expanding their focus from products to consumers to humankind issues. Marketing 3.0 is the stage when companies shift from consumer-centricity to human-centricity and where profitability is balanced with corporate responsibility.

  Philip Kotler

  Responsibility, Past, Years

  Philip Kotler, Hermawan Kartajaya, Iwan Setiawan (2010). “Marketing 3.0: From Products to Customers to the Human Spirit”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons

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• The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.

  Albert J. Nock

  Tariffs, Libertarian, Reason

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• All of us as consumers have gotten spoiled, ... We expect customized goods and services at commodity prices. The only way we can do that is to cut the fat out of our price structure.

  Robert Rubin

  Cutting, Commodity Prices, Way

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• A strong currency means that American consumers and businesses can buy imported goods and services more cheaply and that inflation and interest rates will be lower, ... It also puts pressure on American industry to increase productivity and competitiveness. These benefits can feed on themselves as foreign capital flows in more readily because of greater confidence in our currency. A weak dollar would have the contrary effects.

  Robert Rubin

  Strong, Mean, Dollars

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• Each business is a victim of Digital Darwinism, the evolution of consumer behavior when society and technology evolve faster than the ability to exploit it. Digital Darwinism does not discriminate. Every business is threatened.

  Brian Solis

  Technology, Doe, Digital

  Brian Solis (2014). “The Brian Solis Digital Reader”, p.378, John Wiley & Sons

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• Businesses are interacting with consumers to socialize rather than learn about customer expectations to in turn, deliver tangible value, improve product experiences, and invest in long-term relationships.

  Brian Solis

  Long, Expectations, Tangible

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• A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality?

  Jack Valenti

  Quality, Doe, Use

  "A Plea For Keeping Alive the U.S. Film Industry's Competitive Energy". Jack Valenti's speech as MPAA Chairman and CEO before The Senate Judiciary Committee, September 20, 1995.

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• The average consumer does not know the difference between browser, Internet and search box.

  Mitchell Baker

  Average, Differences, Doe

  "Questions For: Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Chairman". Interview with Andrew LaVallee, blogs.wsj.com. March 4, 2009.

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• Our primary identity has become that of being consumers – not mothers, teachers, or farmers, but of consumers. We shop and shop and shop.

  Annie Leonard

  Mother, Teacher, Identity

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• Legislators need to support privacy to establish consumer confidence.

  Marc Rotenberg

  Support, Needs, Privacy

  "High tech's top 5 special interests" by Stacy Collett, www.cnn.com. July 5, 2001.

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• Design is more important than technology in most consumer applications.

  Dave McClure

  Creativity, Technology, Design

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• If we want to move towards a low-polluting, sustainable society, we need to get consumers to think about their purchases.

  David Suzuki

  Moving, Thinking, Needs

  David Suzuki, David Taylor (2009). “The Big Picture: Reflections on Science, Humanity, and a Quickly Changing Planet”, p.204, Greystone Books

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• I am the self-consumer of my woes.

  John Clare

  Self, Woe

  'I Am' (1848)

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• The #1 business opportunity for those who want to create new wealth is educating consumers about products and services that will improve their lives.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Opportunity, Want, Wealth

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• When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Mind, Should, Distinction

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• The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. The General Strike attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model.

  Justin Sane

  Reality, Issues, Iphone

  "Anti-Flag’s General Strike Is a Soundtrack for Occupied America" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 29, 2012.

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• Creating Lovemarks is all about the ability to understand consumers’ dreams, to know what they want and when they want it and to create great experiences that make your brand a part of their lives.

  Kevin Roberts

  Dream, Creating, Want

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• A brand is nothing but an expression of the consumer’s loyalty and trust.

  Phil Dusenberry

  Loyalty, Expression, Brands

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• True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers.

  Lewis Hyde

  Government, Citizens, Makers

  Lewis Hyde (2010). “Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership”, p.27, Macmillan

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• Good marketers see consumers as complete human beings with all the dimensions real people have.

  Jonah Sachs

  Motivational, Real, People

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• Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Freedom, Entrepreneur, Liberty

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.333, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The general uncertainty about the prospects of medical treatment is socially handled by rigid entry requirements. These are designed to reduce the uncertainty in the mind of the consumer as to the quality insofar as this is possible. I think this explanation, which is perhaps the naive one, is much more tenable than any idea of a monopoly seeking to increase incomes.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  Kenneth Joseph Arrow (1983). “Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow: Applied economics”, p.42, Harvard University Press

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• ... In a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism - the consumer advocates of ideas. Debunking is not simply the divestment of bunk; its utility is in offering a better alternative, along with a lesson on how thinking goes wrong.

  Michael Shermer

  Thinking, Offering, Ideas

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• The consumers suffer when the laws of the country prevent the most efficient entrepreneurs from expanding the sphere of their activities. What made some enterprises develop into "big business" was precisely their success in filling best the demand of the masses.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Country, Law, Entrepreneur

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.6, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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