“The success factor is a combination of intuition and honestly, it's mostly only intuition. A design business is inherently dependent upon the intuition of its chief designer. Luckily I have a track record that if you show me five pairs of shoes I will almost always pick the one pair that will sell the best. It's just a gift I have for mass taste - a link with what people want in a certain moment in time.” PeopleIfsWantMomentsShowsCertainRecordsFiveDesignTasteMassPicksSellsShoesTrackIntuitionHonestlyFactorsChiefsCombinationDesignerDependentPairsLinksShow MeMoments In TimePair Of ShoesTrack Record Author:Monita Rajpal
“I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there and make this a record for mass consumption, this was really just a way for me to get out of my own situation and reclaim that part of myself - so when making the songs, I wanted a testament to what I'd gone through, I wanted a snapshot of those moments.” WayMadeMomentsWantedSongMy OwnSituationGoneRecordsMassConsumptionTestamentSnapshotsMass Consumption Author:Frank Iero
“Singles are your safest songs on the records. Ones that piss fewer people off, that appeal more to the masses.” PeopleSongRecordsMassAppealsFewerSingles Author:Garth Brooks
“No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me--has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has any one ever lost public office thereby. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is folly. They dislike ideas, for ideas make them uncomfortable.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayWritingYearsMadeIdeasHelpingRunningAbleLostSpeakMistakeEducationCasesRecordsThis WorldOfficeMassAgentsUncomfortableAssumptionFollyHelp MeAppetiteDislikeUnderestimateEmployedPublic OfficeLost Money Author:H. L. Mencken
“Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.” TermRecordsMassHallsOverlooked Author:Inara George
“If you view computer designers as artists, they're really into more of an art form that can be mass-produced, like records, or like prints, than they are into fine arts. They want something where they can express themselves to a large number of people through their medium, and their medium is technology and manufacturing.” PeopleIfsWantArtFormArtistViewsNumbersTechnologyRecordsFineComputerMassMediumsDesignerPrintWant SomethingManufacturingFine ArtsLarge Numbers Author:Steve Jobs