Best Consumers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Possessions deteriorate, become obsolete, or teeter towards irrelevance. We will never remember the features of our third-last smartphone but we will remember how it helped us and what it made us feel. It’s the experience of the item, not the item itself, that we value more.”

Emotion Marketing Selling Advertising Consumers

Book:Why Marketing Works: 7 Time-Tested, Brand-Building Principles

Source: Why Marketing Works: 7 Time-Tested, Brand-Building Principles

“I see things in windows and I say to myself that I want them. I want them because I want to belong. I want to be liked by more people, I want to be held in higher regard than others. I want to feel valued, so I say to myself to watch certain shows. I watch certain shows on the television so I can participate in dialogues and conversations and debates with people who want the same things I want. I want to dress a certain way so certain groups of people are forced to be attracted to me. I want to do my hair a certain way with certain styling products and particular combs and methods so that I can fit in with the In-Crowd. I want to spend hours upon hours at the gym, stuffing my body with what scientists are calling 'superfoods', so that I can be loved and envied by everyone around me. I want to become an icon on someone's mantle. I want to work meaningless jobs so that I can fill my wallet and parentally-advised bank accounts with monetary potential. I want to believe what's on the news so that I can feel normal along with the rest of forever. I want to listen to the Top Ten on Q102, and roll my windows down so others can hear it and see that I am listening to it, and enjoying it. I want to go to church every Sunday, and pray every other day. I want to believe that what I do is for the promise of a peaceful afterlife. I want rewards for my 'good' deeds. I want acknowledgment and praise. And I want people to know that I put out that fire. I want people to know that I support the war effort. I want people to know that I volunteer to save lives. I want to be seen and heard and pointed at with love. I want to read my name in the history books during a future full of clones exactly like me. The mirror, I've noticed, is almost always positioned above the sink. Though the sink offers more depth than a mirror, and mirror is only able to reflect, the sink is held in lower regard. Lower still is the toilet, and thought it offers even more depth than the sink, we piss and shit in it. I want these kind of architectural details to be paralleled in my every day life. I want to care more about my reflection, and less about my cleanliness. I want to be seen as someone who lives externally, and never internally, unless I am able to lock the door behind me. I want these things, because if I didn't, I would be dead in the mirrors of those around me. I would be nothing. I would be an example. Sunken, and easily washed away.”

Love Life Self Philosophy Government Truth America Religion Freedom Society Military Disease Mental Illness Consumers Denial Weed Whiskey Romanticism Slaves Clones Shocker

Author:Dave Matthes

“CopyCats are Critics — they love enforcing rules, so they keep on doing things the way they’ve always been done. Creatives are Creators — not just consumers. Their original ideas bring wealth to nations!”

Ideas Nations Wealth Critics Consumers Rules Original Copycats Creators Creatives

Book:CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

Source: CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human beings, because they—unlike all companies—have the means of reproduction.”

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Book:The Use and Misuse of Children

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Unlearn your knowledge about what WAS working to understand what is working NOW”

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Author:Roger James Hamilton

“Mold won’t grow on McDonald’s. So, if a lifeform with no brain won’t even eat their food, what’s that say about the intellects of McDonald’s customers? BearPaw Duck And Meme Farm caters to more discerning consumers.”

Food Customers Consumers Ducks Mold Duck

Book:Duck Quotes For The Ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

Source: Duck Quotes For The Ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

“Consumption is not bad, but when done at excessive proportions it turns out to be not just bad, but downright deadly for the self as well as the society, as the society itself is a collective functional expression of many selves.”

Health Consumers Consumption Healthy Living Consumerism Neuroscience Healthy Lifestyle Social Psychology Consumer Culture

Book:Conscience over Nonsense

Source: Conscience over Nonsense

“The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“The buyers of useless things are wiser than is commonly supposed--they buy little dreams. They become children in the act of acquisition. When people with money succumb to the charms of those useless little objects, they possess them with the joy of a child gathering sea shells on the beach--the image that best expresses the child's happiness. He gathers shells on the beach! No two are ever alike for a child. He falls asleep with the two prettiest ones in his hand, and when they're lost or taken from him (A crime! They've made off with outward bits of his soul! They've stolen pieces of his dream!), he weeps like a God robbed of a just-created universe.”

Children Happiness Dreams Consumers Buying Consumption Consumerism Acquisition Buyers

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“This is, then, no longer a sequence of mere objects, but a chain of signifiers, in so far as all of these signify one another reciprocally as part of a more complex super-object, drawing the consumer into a series of more complex motivations. (Baudrillard, 1998: 27)”

Consumers Baudrillard Signification

Book:Baudrillard for Architects

Source: Baudrillard for Architects

“Creators always have an advantage because they make the stuff we consume.”

Entrepreneurship Consumers Create Consume Creators

Author:Richie Norton

“Anyone under the age of 65 that has private health insurance is not the true customer in American healthcare. Large and small group employers are.”

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Book:What the U.S. Healthcare System Doesn't Want You to Know, Why, and How You Can Do Something About It

Source: What the U.S. Healthcare System Doesn't Want You to Know, Why, and How You Can Do Something About It

“This book is about what religions teach, not about what religious people believe or how they live. There is often shamefully little correlation between the two.”

Consumers Veganism Scriptures Comparative Religion Animal Liberation Anymals Human Animal Relationships Animals And Religion Religion And Animals Religion And Ethics

Book:Animals and World Religions

Source: Animals and World Religions

“Exploiting nature has no real benefits; only irreversible consequences.”

Consumers Consequences Consuming Animal Life Deforestation Endangered Species Greediness Plant Life Endangered Animals Exploiting

Book:These Words Burn Like Fire

Source: These Words Burn Like Fire

“American citizens are self-absorbed, and the U.S. government devotes its immense resources to achieving the capitalistic demands of its citizenry. Thoughts do not saturate American politics. Corporations employ lobbyist and they fund political action committees that exert inordinate influence in shaping the outcome of this nation’s political agendas. Lobbyist devote their paid for services to sway government officials including legislators and members of regulatory agencies to carry out the programs of powerful corporations and wealthy individuals, granting unprecedented socioeconomic power in the hallowed chambers of the American government to wealthy segments of society. American corporations and affluent people exploit American culture, morals, and religion to push their private interests including inexplicable economic and military incursions into foreign counties. I feel increasingly disenfranchised and unrepresented in America’s supposedly participatory democratic government given the entrenchment of power in a select few. American democracy grants material benefits to the wealthy, vulgarizes the middle class, and ignores the disenfranchised poor. Many Americans applaud prosperous groups exploiting the lower classes, presumably because everyone aspires to become rich. A person and a society that employs vanities and greediness to measure their worthiness is hopelessly doomed. Future historians will venerate an empire that pursued achievement of great deeds based upon virtuous principles. Conversely, the historians of tomorrow will skewer contemporary Americans for their compulsive need to consume the ecosystem and trounce upon the rights of other nations to live peacefully. American vanities and unchecked desire to enjoy an easy life could destroy the world, as we know it.”

America Consumers Consumerism Egotism Self Absorbed Self Absorption Ecosystem Citizens Of The World Environmentalism Peaceful Vanity Egotists

Book:Dead Toad Scrolls

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“Only producers constitute a market - only men who trade products and services for products and services. In the role of producers, they represent a market’s supply; in the role of consumers, they represent a market’s demand. The law of supply and demand has an implicit subclause: that it involves the same people in both capacities. When this subclause is forgotten, ignored or evaded - you get the economic situation of today. The man who consumes without producing is a parasite, whether is a welfare recipient or a rich playboy”

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Book:Philosophy: Who Needs It

Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It

“There is no such creature as a “farm animal,” except human beings, who have spent considerable time farming down through history. Other species, such as turkeys and pigs, are exploited on farms, by humans. As such, they are “farmed” animals. Similarly, there is no such thing as a “veal calf” or a “lab animal,” though there are millions of calves and mice who are systematically exploited by ranchers, experimenters, and consumers. There is also no such thing as seafood, only sea creatures who are exploited by others for food or profit.”

Language Words Consumers Seafood Vivisection Communication Problems Exploit Animal Experimentation Veal Speciesism Animals

Book:Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Source: Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

“Our food system depends on consumers’ not knowing much about it beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner. Cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it’s a short way from not knowing who’s at the other end of your food chain to not caring- to the carelessness of both consumers and producers.”

Consumers Food System

Book:The Omnivore's Dilemma

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma

“They promise us once-in-a-lifetime bargains in the orgies of consumerism that are Black Friday and Cyber Monday. More likely, we end up with precious little, vacant souls and an ever-decreasing appreciation of humanity.”

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Author:Stewart Stafford

“Computers are one of the products in the USA that appear to be unregulated by the government which leaves consumers unprotected from flawed devices.”

Government Products Consumers Usa Devices Flawed Computers Appear Unregulated Unprotected

Author:Steven Magee

“With the explosion of the internet has come numerous avenues for small business owners to share their expertise and position themselves as experts. And expertise is what consumers are looking for.”

Internet Consumers Expertise Small Business Owners

Book:Thriving in the New Economy

Source: Thriving in the New Economy

“Feminists lobby against sex wage discrepancies, gays fight homophobic laws, and the physically challenged demand greater access—each fighting for injustices that affect their lives, and/or the lives of their loved ones. Yet these dedicated activists usually fail to make even a slight change in their consumer choices for the sake of other much more egregiously oppressed and exploited individuals. While it is important to fight for one’s own liberation, it is counterproductive (not to mention selfish and small minded) to fight for one’s own liberation while willfully continuing to oppress others who are yet lower on the rungs of hierarchy.”

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Book:Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices

Source: Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices

“Most consumers are unaware of the ongoing, intense suffering and billions of premature deaths that lurk behind mayonnaise and cream, cold cuts and egg sandwiches.”

Consumers Meat Eggs Veganism Slaughter Dairy Animal Liberation Factory Farming Speciesism Ethics And Diet

Book:Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices

Source: Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices

“To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.”

Writing Years Children Lasts Regret Consumers I Regret Layman

Author:John Noble

“I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.”

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Author:Kenzaburo Oe

“The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.”

Thinking Want Needs School Teacher Subjects Consumers Shops Goods

Author:Daniel Pennac

“I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.”

Real Ends Sound Records Machines Consumers Factories Tape Mechanic Fidelity Real Education High Fidelity

Author:Alan Parsons

“Europe is a strong market for the U.S. If it has problems, if there's a lack of consumer confidence, if there's a deeper recession, this will deeply affect jobs in the U.S.”

Ifs Problem Jobs Strong Europe Deeper Consumers Recessions Consumer Confidence

Author:George Papandreou

“A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than services. American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers.”

“Recent research suggests that New Deal programs may actually have had their primary impact on the economy by influencing consumer and business expectations of future growth and inflation.”

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Author:Christina Romer

“Consumer electronics is a challenging one.”

Challenges Consumers Electronics

Author:Kevin B. Rollins

“I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently.”

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Author:Kevin B. Rollins

“China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world.”

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Author:S. R. Nathan

“To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the income gains of typical American workers.”

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Author:Steven Rattner

“If you are not online, people look at you askance. I think in three to four years' time people will look equally askance at you if you haven't got the ability for consumers to buy what they want, where they want and how they want.”

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Author:Stuart Rose

“If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.”

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Author:Stuart Rose

“For Sony, owning a studio is a gamble and probably a pretty good one, now that in the broadband era having content is a great advantage when you sell devices that in a ubiquitous world of distribution can actually show programs, movies, content directly to the consumer. So that you actually create, in a digital world, real synergy.”

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Author:Howard Stringer

“More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.”

People Consequence Consumers Sunday Competitiveness

Author:Pope Francis

“I think people should be consumers of journalism.”

People Thinking Should Journalism Consumers

Author:Andrew Vachss

“We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.”

Has Beens Growth Rooms Half Cost Consumers Boards Percentages Tuition Restraining Cost Of Education

Author:Charles M. Vest

“If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer's not going to take notice.”

Ifs Thinking Girl Creative Design Consumers

Author:Alexander Wang

“When you focus on the consumer, the consumer responds.”

Focus Consumers

Author:Alexander Wang

“Consumer goods become enlightenment, relationships, anything! It doesn't really matter because infinity exists in everything. "Greater than the greatest, smaller than the smallest, the self dwells in the hearts of all," that is the Upanishads.”

Heart Self Matter Greater Enlightenment Consumers Goods Infinity Hinduism Smallest

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices. You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections - the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?”

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Author:Al Franken

“Proponents of efficiency standards argue that they save consumers and businesses money, reduce energy use, and reduce emissions. But families and businesses already understand how energy costs impact their lives and make decisions accordingly.”

Use Energy Decision Cost Standards Impact Arguing Consumers Efficiency Emissions Energy Use

Author:Gina McCarthy

“When consumers do not take full advantage of efficiency gains, it is because they are weighing other factors that influence their decision making. When the federal government arbitrarily places one of those factors over others, it makes consumers worse off.”

Government Decision Influence Gains Advantage Factors Consumers Decision Making Efficiency Federal Government Weighing

Author:Gina McCarthy

“The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives.”

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Author:Matt Mullenweg

“England was killed by an idea: the idea that the weak, indolent and profligate must be supported by the strong, industrious, and frugal – to the degree that tax-consumers will have a living standard comparable to that of taxpayers; the idea that government exists for the purpose of plundering those who work to give the product of their labor to those who do not work. The economic and social cannibalism produced by this communist-socialist idea will destroy any society which adopts it and clings to it as a basic principle – ANY society.”

“Most Americans are aware of the brutality and injustice used to maintain the excesses of their selfish consumer society and empire. Yet I suspect...they do not care. They don’t want to see what is done in their name. They do not want to look at the rows of flag-draped coffins, the horribly maimed bodies and faces of veterans, or the human suffering in the blighted and deserted former manufacturing centers. It is too upsetting. Government and corporate censorship is therefore welcomed and appreciated.”

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