#consume

Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#economies #fuel #goods #less #local

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#buy #consumers #content #decides #form

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#consumer #demand #food #food industry #industry

Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA. ↗

— Fred Upton

#american consumer #carbon #consumer #cuts #electricity

When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#art #consumerism #creativity #destiny #soul

For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do not create alone. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#artist #consumer #consumerism #create #creating

As a business leader you have to ask yourself, “Am I creating a consumer environment that is conducive to loyalty?” If the answer is no, FIX IT! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#consumer #leader #loyalty #business

A shopping cart flipped upside down forms a cage that I use to protect myself from consumerism. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#consumerism #prison #shopping #change

We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted, more dependable, achieve higher grades in school and college and have more success in their careers than others. Success depends on the ability to delay gratification, which is precisely what a consumerist culture undermines. At every stage, the emphasis is on the instant gratification of instinct. In the words of the pop group Queen, “I want it all and I want it now.” A whole culture is being infantilised. ↗

— Jonathan Sacks

#desire #education #parenting #education

Wait long enough, and what was once mainstream will fall into obscurity. When that happens, it will become valuable again to those looking for authenticity or irony or cleverness. The value, then, is not intrinsic. The thing itself doesn’t have as much value as the perception of how it was obtained or why it is possessed. Once enough people join in, like with oversized glasses frames or slap bracelets, the status gained from owning the item or being a fan of the band is lost, and the search begins again. You would compete like this no matter how society was constructed. Competition for status is built into the human experience at the biological level. Poor people compete with resources. The middle class competes with selection. The wealthy compete with possessions. You sold out long ago in one way or another. The specifics of who you sell to and how much you make—those are only details. ↗

— David McRaney

#consumerism #experience