Consumers Quotes - Page 22

• Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity

  Clay Shirky

  Mean, Identity, Behavior

  Clay Shirky (2008). “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations”, p.71, Penguin

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• The 'futures' and 'careers' for which American students now prepare are for the most part intellectual and moral wastelands. This chrome-plated consumers' paradise would have us grow up to be well-behaved children. But an important minority of men and women coming to the front today have shown they will die rather than be standardized, replaceable, and irrelevant.

  Mario Savio

  Children, Growing Up, Men

  Mario Savio, Eugene Walker, Raya Dunayevskaya (1965). “The Free Speech Movement and the Negro revolution”

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• Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

  David Riesman

  Occupation, Today

  David Riesman (1950). “The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character”

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• We as consumers really do have the right to know what's in our food.

  Gary Hirshberg

  Knows

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• Consumers have to understand that the purpose of these claims is to get them to buy the product.

  Marion Nestle

  Purpose, Claims, Products

  "The Worst Thing Since White Bread" by Ali Cherry, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2014.

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• Restaurants that have health-conscious consumers will pay attention to this.

  Marion Nestle

  Attention, Pay, Conscious

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• The main goal is not to complicate the already difficult life of the consumer.

  Raymond Loewy

  Goal, Experience, Difficult

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• The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribble -- to sleep and cook and walk in the woods, to sit and stare at the shapes of the hills. I produce nothing but words; I consumer nothing but food, a little propane, a little firewood. By being utterly useless in the calculations of the culture at large I become useful, at last, to myself.

  Philip Connors

  Sleep, Thinking, Mountain

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• You can’t change the world, but you can change yourself. That adage suits consumer capitalism perfectly, since the illusion of changing ourselves is a successfully maintained through shopping.

  Madeleine Bunting

  Shopping, World, Suits

  "The end is nigh" by Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2001.

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• The consumer is both culprit and victim of the confusion on quality.

  Nino Cerruti

  Confusion, Quality, Victim

  Interview with Matthieu Guinebault, uk.fashionnetwork.com. October 2, 2012.

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• I am expecting that consumers are going to continue and exert power and influence. The idea of radical transparency is something that few brands are taking advantage of now, and most brands fight it. I’d say that in 10 years the best brands won’t be those with the best stories, sort of made up fictional stories, but those that will give an accurate and real time picture of what they are doing in the interest of the consumer, in any given time.

  Alex Bogusky

  Real, Fighting, Years

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• Consumers never complain about ads being too smart.

  Lee Clow

  Smart, Complaining, Ads

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• We didn't see any statistically significant relationship between our buzz and our short-term sales...Is that the end of the story? I would say no. This is one study on a set of brands in a particular company within a certain segment of the consumer-packag ed-goods industry. It is by no means a generalized result that applies to all industries.

  Eric Schmidt

  Mean, Stories, Buzz

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• The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.

  Stuart Chase

  Business, Games, Effort

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• Increasingly, consumers don't search for products and services. Rather, services come to their attention via social media.

  Erik Qualman

  Media, Attention, Social

  "More marketers use social networking to reach customers" by Jon Swartz, abcnews.go.com.

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• Consumers are taking ownership of brands, and their referral power is priceless.

  Erik Qualman

  Referrals, Priceless, Ownership

  Erik Qualman (2010). “Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business”, p.122, John Wiley & Sons

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• We resist mindlessness of any kind. Again, drugs, like television, are fine for other people. The more enslaved they are, the easier it is for us, as long as they stay out of our way. Whether it’s through religiously-imposed ignorance, spectator sports, crack, pot, coke, heroin—or the consumer insecurities imposed by the almighty Tube—it’s fine with us as long as it keeps sheep more docile and easily contained. That doesn’t mean we have to subject ourselves to it. Military generals don’t step out on the missile range and volunteer as targets for the latest prototype weapons

  Blanche Barton

  Sports, Military, Ignorance

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• Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our five disparate senses. James Geary's fascinating and utterly readable I is an Other brings the news on metaphor from literature and economics, from neuroscience and politics, illuminating topics from consumer behavior to autism spectrum disorders to the evolution of language. As a writer, as a teacher, and as someone just plain fascinated by how our minds work, I've been waiting years for exactly this book.

  James Richardson

  Teacher, Book, New Experiences

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• What has really changed in the industry is the consumer. The 'he' is now a 'she,'

  Donna Kane

  Changed, Industry

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• The entire world economy rests on the consumer;
  if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have
  on things he doesn't need -- we're done for.

  Bill Bonner

  Civilization, Needs, Done

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• The less the consumer knows about what's happening before the meat hits the plate, the better.

  Peter Cheeke

  Meat, Plates, Knows

  "Contemporary Issues in Animal Agriculture". Book by Peter Cheeke, 1993.

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• One of the trends we're seeing in food and agriculture is more and more consumers wanting to know things about their food and where and how it's grown and what's in it.

  Dan Glickman

  Agriculture, Trends, Food Safety

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• The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction. The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.

  Ludwig von Mises

  People, Entrepreneur, Want

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.43, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I think as the beauty industry moves forward, you will start to see more brands opening their eyes and becoming vegan. Excluding a huge part of the beauty consumers who only buy vegan, isn't right and if you can make just as high-quality makeup, why not stop cruelty?

  Jeffree Star

  Moving, Eye, Makeup

  Source: logicalharmony.net

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• If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity will open up.

  C. K. Prahalad

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Thinking

  C.K. Prahalad (2009). “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, Revised and Updated 5th Anniversary Edition: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits”, p.25, FT Press

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