“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.” PeopleWantLevelsNumbersSkyProductsNeededHigherInvolvedBlueStrategyCaughtConsumersInherentConsumerismBusinessmanGlimpseExpandingLarge NumbersHigher LevelOverconsumptionBlue SkyWastefulness Author:Vance Packard
“You think of it [voicing] as something where you not only don't //need// your body, but you don't even have it to use! There's nothing you can do with your body that's going to show in the final product. Maybe that's all the more reason I used my body so much to get whatever noise or sounds out of it I could. When it was needed to keep the energy up I found myself almost running in place! It is very physical.” ThinkingNeedsReasonUseShowsBodyRunningUsedFoundEnergySoundCan DoProductsNeededFinalsYour BodyNoise Author:Jim Parsons
“One thing that's great about having kids, especially given my career, is that it forces you out of your narcissism. I mean, I'm in a career where my product is me. So it was nice to have something, someone, come along and take the focus off me. I really needed to give myself some distractions from myself.” GivingMeanKidsGivenForceCareersFocusNiceOne ThingProductsNeededDistractionNarcissismHaving Kids Author:Michelle Pfeiffer
“Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?” PeopleIfsProductsIndustryNeededComfortComfortableHumorousMadWho You AreAdvertisingPuppyHeadlinesMiscellaneousPostersHushHush HushAdvertisement NegativeAdvertising Industry Author:Marc Edwards
“Companies made these decisions about encryption when they were finding it very difficult to sell their products overseas because the [Edward] Snowden disclosures created the impression that the U.S. government was inside this hardware and software produced by them. They needed to do something to deal with the perception.” MadeGovernmentDifficultDecisionDealsCompanyProductsNeededFindingsPerceptionSellsImpressionSoftwareHardwareDisclosureSnowdenEncryption Author:Michael Morell
“I have said countless times that unless you are delivering a product and service that is really needed and unless you are doing it really well, you don't stick around for 80 years.” YearsWellsSaidProductsNeededSticksDelivering Author:Ashley Judd
“With the Health Impact Fund, the innovation is paid for separately, through publicly funded health impact rewards, and the product is sold at the cost of production to all. Here, the cruel injustice of preventing the poor from buying at cost - evidenced by today's suppression of the trade in generic versions of patented medicines - would no longer be needed.” TodayPoorProductsNeededCostPaidInnovationTradeImpactMedicineRewardsInjusticeProductionsVersionsBuyingFundPreventingSuppressionGeneric Author:Thomas Pogge