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“Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer.”

Giving Wells Individual Producers Consumers

“Clearly, Japan is a most important market for digital consumer products.”

Important Products Consumers Japan Digital

“When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification.”

Humans Light Desire Human Beings Simple Cutting Creatures Shoes Size Consumers Heat Warmth Shelter Gratification Gucci

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.”

Use Law Company Consumers

Author:Jon Lech Johansen

“The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.”

Creative Movement Consumers

Author:Chris Hardwick

“Designers are by nature more inquisitive, more connected. They dig a little deeper in terms of insights. They turn those insights into innovation. That connection to the consumer is absolutely critical in driving innovation. It’s critical that design isn’t subjugated to the back room as a short order cook for marketing or for merchandising or sales. It has to be up front.”

Littles Order Turns Term Rooms Fronts Design Connections Innovation Marketing Deeper Insight Connected Critical Driving Consumers Cooks Designer Inquisitive Merchandising

Author:Mark Parker

“Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.”

Criticism Photograph Consumers Hypocrisy Tourists

Author:Martin Parr

“Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.”

“Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.”

People Want Philosophy Problem Government Political Protect Economics Consumers Urgent

Author:Milton Friedman

“Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it?”

Enough Use Able Given Pay Willing Consumers Copying

Author:Edward Felten

“Well, I think the best form would be to put money directly in the pockets of consumers.”

Thinking Wells Would Be Form Economy Consumers Pockets

Author:Franklin Raines

“Some of the power has shifted from companies to people. Using social media tools (blogs, wikis, tagging, etc.) more individuals are creating semi-spontaneous 'groundswells' of opinions to which companies and other institutions are realizing they must respond. From marketing to consumers organizations are being pulled into engaging with individuals.”

People Individual Social Realizing Company Opinion Media Creating Tools Organization Institutions Marketing Social Media Consumers Etc Spontaneous Engaging Connecting Blogs Wikis

Author:Charlene Li

“All too much of the wage structure has been based on the time workers put in, rather than upon the product put out. The consumer dollar has no interest in how much time it buys-only in the character and quality of the product itself.”

Has Beens Character Interest Business Quality Too Much Products Structure Dollars Workers Consumers

Author:Wheeler McMillen

“It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around. Wendell Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating," What Are People For?, 1989 Jesus pioneered a relationship ethic based on compassion. Being a disciple means building relationships - with the Creator and with all creation and creatures.”

“...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never truly enjoys them. One has without truly having. The consumer is right-there is pleasure to be had in good things, a sacred and almost unspeakable pleasure, but the consumer wrongly thinks that one finds this pleasure by having more and more possessions instead of possessing them more truly through grateful contemplation. And here we are, living in an economy that perpetuates this tragedy.”

Thinking Knows Enjoy Pleasure Economy Tragedy Grateful Sacred Good Things Possession Consumers Contemplation Acquire Consumerism Possessing Overconsumption Unspeakable

Author:Brian D. McLaren

“As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwise, many began to see blue skies... What was needed was strategies that would make Americans in large numbers into voracious, wasteful, compulsive consumers-and strategies that would provide products assuring such wastefulness. Even where wastefulness was not involved, additional strategies were needed that would induce the public to consume at ever-higher levels.”

“Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to satisfy them. But the case cannot stand if it is the process of satisfying wants that create the wants.”

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Book:The Essential Galbraith

Source: The Essential Galbraith

“Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To make away with or destroy; to waste or to squander; to use up." The economies that cater to the global consumer society are responsible for the lion's share of the damage that humans have inflicted on common global resources.”

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Author:Alan Thein Durning

“Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a “disposable” culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new. Exclusion ultimately has to do with what it means to be a part of the society in which we live; those excluded are no longer society’s underside or its fringes or its disenfranchised – they are no longer even a part of it. The excluded are not the “exploited” but the outcast, the “leftovers”.”

“In a consumer society, expectations dare not plateau, because a growing economy depends on rising expectations... The more we let our level of contentment be determined by outside factors-a new car, fashionable clothes, a prestigious career, social status-the more we relinquish control over our own happiness.”

“Roughly two billion people participate in the money economy, with less than half of those living in the wealthy countries of the developed world. These affluent 800 million, however, account for more than 75 percent of the world's energy and resource consumption, and also create the bulk of its industrial, toxic, and consumer waste.”

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Author:Stuart L. Hart

“The money economy thus leaves a large ecological footprint, defined as the amount of land and resources required to meet a typical consumer's needs. For example, with only about 4% of the world's population, the United States, the largest money economy, consumes in excess of one-quarter of the world's energy and materials and generates in excess of 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.”

“The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness among the rich, while the poor majority rot in their poverty-this is surely something against which a Christian should be a nonconformist.”

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Author:Lesslie Newbigin

“We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be done it should be done was born in the nineteenth century. And along with it, there developed a profound belief in all the principles through which invention succeeds: objectivity, efficiency, expertise, standardization, measurement, and progress. It also came to be believed that the engine of technological progress worked most efficiently when people are conceived of not as children of God or even as citizens but as consumers-that is to say, as markets.”

Source: Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

“If the Christ we follow sent out his disciples with no extra possessions (Luke 9:1-6 and 10:1-12) and warned would-be devotees that he had nowhere to lay his head (see Luke 9:57-62), then we must recognize that it is extremely difficult to live in a Christian way in a consumer culture.”

Ifs Way Would Be Christian Culture Difficult Christ Lays Possession Consumers Extras Consumerism Disciple Luke Overconsumption Devotee Consumer Culture

Book:A Royal Waste of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World

Source: A Royal Waste of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World

“The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be found in culture and character. To fail to see this is to go on dividing the world falsely between guilty producers and innocent consumers.”

World Humans Character Problem Culture Found Answers Economy Failing Goes On Innocent Producers Guilty Consumers Consumerism Ecology Overconsumption Dividing Human Problems

Book:What Are People For?: Essays

Source: What Are People For?: Essays

“The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and drugs. The one great difference is that by now the revolution has deprived the mass of consumers of any independent access to the staples of life: clothing, shelter, food, even water. Air access remains the only necessity that the average user can still get for himself, and the revolution has imposed a heavy tax on that by way of pollution. Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.”

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“I've been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind when they become old adults, but I never did. I was always interested in the fantasy world created in those novels.”

People Thinking World Young Literature Stuff Behinds Fantasy Novel Adults Young Adult Consumers Avid Fantasy Worlds

Author:Diablo Cody

“If consumers don't have the wherewithal to spend because all the money's going to the top, and the people at the top only spend a very small fraction of what they earn, then the economy is almost inevitably destined to slow.”

People Ifs Economy Consumers Destined Fractions

Author:Robert Reich

“Animal abusers are not the only culprits - the consumers are the biggest abusers! As long as buyers, users, attendees at animal performances, etc., keep using, abusers keep abusing!!!”

Long Animal Performances Consumers Etc Animal Rights Users Buyers Abusers Culprit

Author:Adela Popescu

“One of the changes I'm driving within Nokia is to adopt what we call 'the challenger mindset.' Let's understand that we have to fight, we have to fight our way through the difficulties, we have to listen to consumers, we have to both deliver what they need and also have some creativity and insight and deliver what the don't yet know they need.”

Knows Way Needs Fighting Creativity Difficulty Insight Mindset Driving Consumers Nokia

Author:Stephen Elop

“When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is the elimination or neutralization of the independent individual- the independent voter, consumer, worker, owner, thinker- and that every device they employ aims at turning men into a manipulable animated instrument which is Aristotle's definition of a slave.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“I do not think it is any benefit for artists or fans to have all the new, wide distribution channels in the online world controlled by those who have controlled the old, narrower ones, .. This is especially true if they achieve that control by leveraging their dominance in content or conduit space in an anticompetitive way to control the new, independent music services that are attempting to enhance the consumer's experience of music.”

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Author:Orrin Hatch

“Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result from the transformation of matter in form, location, or availability (intellectually or temporally). It is these transformations that create economic benefits valued by consumers, and whoever arranges such transformations contributes to the value of things, whether his hands actually come into contact with physical objects or not.”

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Author:Thomas Sowell

“Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.”

Consumers Vengeance Popcorn

Book:The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life

Source: The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life

“Stop being a consumer, fight the power!”

Fighting Consumers

Author:Peaches Geldof

“If you voluntarily label a product as being unsuitable for kids and then turn around and market it directly to kids in contradiction of your ratings system, then you should be held accountable just like any other company in America that misleads consumers. That's not censorship. That's common sense.”

Ifs Should Kids America Turns Common Company Products Common Sense Labels Consumers Contradiction Censorship Mislead Rating

Author:Joe Lieberman

“Being the first mid-size SUV for the brand, Dodge Nitro had to personify the bold, powerful and street-smart attitude of Dodge. In a world of mostly bland SUVs, the 2007 Dodge Nitro has the design, engineering and performance to inspire consumers and ignite the mid-size SUV market.”

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Author:George Murphy

“As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture.”

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Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“Our alliance with AARP provides valuable insights into the critical 50- plus consumer segment. For more than two decades, The Home Depot has delivered home improvement know-how to customers of all ages. With the help of AARP, our newest workshops will address the specific interests of customers 50 and over.”

Knows Two Helping Home Age Interest Know How Valuable Insight Critical Customers Decades Improvement Consumers Addresses Plus Alliances Workshops Home Improvement

Author:Robert Nardelli

“It is high time that the E.U.'s internal market delivered substantially lower communications charges for consumers and business people traveling abroad. A mobile-phone customer should not be charged a higher tariff just because he -- or she -- is traveling abroad.”

People Should Communication Higher Phones Customers Consumers Internals Mobile Mobile Phones Tariffs

Author:Viviane Reding

“I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.”

Needs Hate Clothes I Hate Consumers Buying Mobile Buying Clothes

Author:Yann Martel

“With all this consumer debt, business debt, government debt, smaller movements in interest rates have a magnified effect. a small movement can tip the boat.”

Government Interest Effects Movement Rate Debt Boat Consumers Interest Rate Government Debt

Author:Bill Gross

“Corruption is another tax on the consumer and it is the Maltese families who are forking the money to make up for such corruptions.”

Taxes Corruption Consumers

Author:Joseph Muscat

“Consumers could be in for an even sweeter deal, either getting discounts from retailers for using the PIN debit cards or being rewarded by card network by winning money back for using the signature debit cards.”

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Author:David Robertson

“Food choices affect health outcomes, and consumers need to have the latest, most up-to-date scientific information in making their food choices.”

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Author:Mark McClellan

“Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers.”

Secret Computer Versions Consumers Engaged Deceit Hiding Technological Files Cloaks Daggers Sony

Author:Greg Abbott

“We are extremely proud to represent all of Radio One's stations within the Katz Radio Group. For the past five years we have worked diligently alongside Radio One to build their business in the markets we have historically represented including Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia , Raleigh and Columbus. At a time of significant growth in the African American consumer market the addition of the remaining Radio One stations expands our ability to deliver strategic marketing solutions to our agency and advertiser customers.”

“Low-wage workers are also consumers. It's just common sense: when these workers have more take-home pay it leads to spending that trickles up to benefit many small, locally owned businesses.”

Home Common Pay Benefits Lows Workers Spending Common Sense Consumers

Author:Mark Price

“Can a one judge sitting somewhere in a trial court issue an order that says nobody in the world is allowed to have, to use, to improve or to develop software for playing multimedia content without the permission of the manufacturers of the content themselves? .. This is an astonishing development in the course of our understanding of what we call the copyright bargain, the relationship between authors' rights, publishers' leverages and consumers' needs.”

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