“Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.” CompanyProductsPercentTwentiesCustomersAdvertisingBrandsThirtyAcquireFortyRevenueExposure Author:Bill Wyman
“The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through experiences which lead him to see things in their different aspects: it is necessary that he have a wide horizon, and breathe various atmospheres--in a word, from crossing, one after another, paths and points of view the most diverse, and sometimes the most contradictory, he must acquire the faculty of putting himself in the place of others and appreciating them.” MenFirstsLongDifferentSometimesJusticeViewsPathProductsBirthAspectAppreciatePainfulVariousWideBreathePoint Of ViewAtmosphereAcquireFacultyHorizonDiverseContradictoryCrossingsBrooding Book:Justice Source: Justice
“It is only by being exchanged that the products of labor acquire a socially uniform objectivity as values, which is distinct from their sensuously varied objectivity as articles of utility.” ValuesProductsLaborAcquireArticlesUniformsUtilityObjectivity Author:Juliet B. Schor
“There's something nearly mystical about certain words and phrases that float through our lives. It's computer mysticism. Words that are computer generated to be used on products that might be sold anywhere from Japan to Denmark - words devised to be pronounceable in a hundred languages. And when you detach one of these words from the product it was designed to serve, the words acquires a chantlike quality.” MightUsedCertainLanguageQualityOur LivesProductsComputerHundredPhrasesAcquireJapanMysticismMysticalFloatsDenmark Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo
“Marketing is all pervasive. They're getting marketed products they can't afford - can't ever hope to acquire. They believe the only way they're ever going to achieve happiness is the acquisition of these products. Products they can't afford. They see people living that lifestyle, and they have that lifestyle beamed incessantly into their minds through media, which you know I participate in.” PeopleKnowsWayMindBelieveAchieveMediaProductsMarketingLifestyleAcquireAcquisitionIncessantly Author:Russell Brand