“Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.” WorldHas BeensMadeGenerationsProductsInternetFortuneStoresSellingBuyingOnlineBusiness WorldBuying And SellingSelling Products Book:Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet Source: Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet
“Cold-turkey deficit reduction would cause a significant recession. A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that going headlong over the cliff would cause our gross domestic product, which has been growing at an annual rate of around 2 percent, to fall at a rate of 2.9 percent in the first half of 2013.” FirstsHas BeensFallCausesHalfGrowingProductsColdOfficePercentRateSignificantBudgetsAnalysisGrossDeficitTurkeysCliffsReductionRecessionsAnnualsGross Domestic ProductCold Turkey Author:Christina Romer
“I think everyone should sell whatever product they want to sell for whatever price they want to sell it for, but ultimately the market will dictate what it is and people will have to charge less money for everything. Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they're in.” PeopleThinkingWayWantShouldLongHas BeensCompanyRecordsTroubleProductsSellsRecord CompaniesOvercharging Author:Black Francis
“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 BeensCharacterInterestBusinessQualityToo MuchProductsStructureDollarsWorkersConsumers Author:Wheeler McMillen
“American culture is no longer created by the people... A free, authentic life is no longer possible in AmericaTM today. We are being manipulated in the most insidious way. Our emotions, personalities and core values are under siege from media and cultural forces too complex to decode. A continuous product message has woven itself into the very fabric of our existence. Most North Americans now live designer lives-sleep, eat, sit in car, work, shop, watch TV, sleep again. I doubt there's more than a handful of free, spontaneous minutes anywhere in that cycle. We ourselves have been branded.” PeopleWayHas BeensTodayLife IsValuesCultureForceSleepEmotionExistenceWatchesDoubtMinutesMediaCarTvsProductsPersonalityMessagesComplexesCoreDesignerShopsCyclesFabricConsumerismSpontaneousHandfulAmerican CultureWovenOverconsumptionInsidiousCore ValuesSiegeBrandedAuthentic LifeUnder Siege Author:Kalle Lasn
“My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. Everything else was secondary. Sure, it was great to make a profit, because that was what allowed you to make great products. But the products, not the profits were the motivation.” PeopleHas BeensMotivationPassionCompanyProductsEndureProfitMotivatedMy Passion Author:Steve Jobs
“Several large, artificial constructions are approaching us, ZORAC announced after a short pause. The designs are not familiar, but they are obviously the products of intelligence. Implications: we have been intercepted deliberately by a means unknown, for a purpose unknown, and transferred to a place unknown by a form of intelligence unknown. Apart from the unknowns, everything is obvious.” MeanHas BeensFormPurposeDesignProductsHumorousObviousFamiliarConstructionArtificialPausesImplications Book:The Two Worlds Source: The Two Worlds
“Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle that "nothing is what it seems"). I did start with some essential ambiguousness in the aliens' motivation and the questions this raises in human minds, which I consider to have been disregarded in Contact (novel and film). That, in part, may be what has delayed the writing of the fifth and sixth novelettes in the series.” WritingMindHumansMayHas BeensStoriesSeemsFilmMotivationPrinciplesNovelProductsEssentialsRaisesSeriesContactAliensComplexityHuman MindFifthAmbiguityDelayedDisregarded Author:James Gunn
“It's simply not enough to just show up and do your work. Superior performance is not, never has been, nor will it ever be, the by-product of ordinary efforts.” Has BeensEnoughShowsEffortProductsOrdinaryPerformancesSuperiorsSuperior Performance Author:Gary Ryan
“We millennials have been advertised to our entire lives, and we can tell when somebody is just trying to sell us something. I think church is the last place I want to go to be sold another product.” ThinkingWantTryingHas BeensLastsChurchProductsSellsMillennialsLast Place Author:Rachel Held Evans
“Disco is a major influence in the world of fashion. It is a dynamic factor in contemporary advertising. It is a message from every consumer that there has been a rediscovery of America's greatest by-product: fun.” WorldHas BeensAmericaFunInfluenceFashionProductsMajorsMessagesContemporaryFactorsAdvertisingConsumersDiscoRediscovery Author:Neil Bogart
“Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.” Has BeensViolenceIdentityProductsEnvironmentalDestroyedPornographyEnvironmental Change Author:Marshall McLuhan