Best products & mass Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I don't play roles everybody likes. I'd rather have a career I'm proud of. Like everyone else, I need to eat. But I'm a very unbusinesslike person, and I keep my price low. I'm not a mass product. I'm not everyone's cup of tea.”

Needs Persons Play Careers Roles Products Proud Mass Lows Likes Cups Tea Cups Of Tea

Author:Amanda Plummer

“The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population. On the contrary, the increasingly complex processes tend to lead to increasingly simple and easily understood products. The genius of mass production is precisely in its making more products more accessible, both economically and intellectually to more people.”

“It is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common man does not want to do without. Luxury goods for the few can be produced in small shops. Luxury goods for the many require big business.”

Men Want Doe Bigs Common He Man Products Mass Luxury Shops Goods Present Day Big Business Common Man Luxury Goods

Book:An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution: The Economist

Source: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution: The Economist

“We cannot rely on mass inspection to improve quality, though there are times when 100 percent inspection is necessary. As Harold S. Dodge said many years ago, 'You cannot inspect quality into a product.' The quality is there or it isn't by the time it's inspected.”

Years Said Quality Products Mass Percent Years Ago Rely Inspection Dodge

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“The order and harmony of the Western world, its most famous achievement, and a laboratory in which structures of a complexity as yet unknown are being fashioned, demand the elimination of a prodigious mass of noxious by-products which now contaminate the globe. The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.”

World Firsts Faces Order Mankind Products Demand Achievement Mass Harmony Structure Western Rounds Complexity Thrown Globes Laboratory Elimination Western World Filth Prodigious

Book:Tristes Tropiques

Source: Tristes Tropiques

“They don't make poles long enough for me want to touch Microsoft products, and I don't want any mass-marketed game-playing device or Windows appliance near my desk or on my network. This is my workbench, dammit, it's not a pretty box to impress people with graphics and sounds. When I work at this system up to 12 hours a day, I'm profoundly uninterested in what user interface a novice user would prefer.”

People Want Long Enough Games Sound Hours Products Mass Window Boxes Devices Users Desks Impress Microsoft Interfaces Appliances Novices Uninterested User Interface

Author:Erik Naggum

“Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now , consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.”

Art Products Demand Messages Mass Advertising Corporate Fulfillment Pushing Consumption Consumerism Gratification Mass Consumption

Book:Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music

Source: Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music

“By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, Web 2.0 provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value of the free labor provided by the very, very many and concentrate it into the hands of the very, very few.”

Mean Hands Values Economic Products Mass Labor Productions Mechanism Efficient Ownership Harvest Withholding Economic Value Web 2.0

Author:Nicholas G. Carr

“Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.”

“Most brands that are called luxury brands today are not true luxury brands. The globalization of fashion and luxury means you now find the same luxury brands in every city. The stores look the same, the products are the same. It is still a very good quality product but it is now readily available to everyone. It's a kind of mass luxury.”

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Author:Monita Rajpal

“Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into an unappeasable appetite not only for goods but for new experiences and personal fulfillment.”

Way Products Mass Advertising Fulfillment Goods Appetite Educate Consumption New Experiences Personal Fulfillment

Book:The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

Source: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

“If the present tax rates had been in effect from the beginning of our century, many who are millionaires today would live under more modest circumstances. But all those new branches of industry which supply the masses with articles unheard of before, would operate, if at all, on a much smaller scale, and their products would be beyond the reach of the common man.”

Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

“Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.”

People Turns Products Photography Mass Consumers

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Photography is a mechanical device; photomontage is a piece of work done with the products of photography. This entire process forms one whole... If I assemble documents and juxtapose them with intelligence and skill, the effect of agitation and propaganda on the masses will be enormous.”

Ifs Done Whole Form Process Pieces Effects Products Skills Photography Mass Enormous Propaganda Devices Documents Work Done Agitation

Author:John Heartfield

“What marketers used to do is make average products for average people. That's what mass marketing is. They would ignore the geeks, and - God forbid - the laggards. It was all about going for the center. I don't think that's the strategy we want to use anymore.”

People Thinking Want Use Used Products Mass Strategy Marketing Average Geek Marketers

Author:Seth Godin

“The problem with modern consumption and mass-produced products is they're designed to just literally be shoved into our mouths and rushed.”

Problem Modern Products Mass Mouths Consumption

Author:Adrian Grenier

“One thing we do know is that mass literacy is a product of the 19th century, at least in English-speaking cultures - Ireland, England, Scotland, Canada, and the U. S.”

Knows Culture One Thing Century Products Mass England Canada Ireland Scotland Literacy 19th Century English Speaking

Author:Robert Hass

“Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.”

Heart Products Taste Mass Improvement Consumers Relentless Merchandising Upgrading

Book:The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics

Source: The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics

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