#consume

Hanging onto a bad buy will not redeem the purchase. ↗

— Terence Conran

#organization #shopping #things #design

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra... ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#crime

If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough. ↗

— Vicki Robin

#consumerism #money #life

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#conception #consumes #down #escaping #every

Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before. ↗

— William Bernbach

#been #before #confuse #consumer #forget

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer. ↗

— Richard Branson

#before #business #consumer #done #especially

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them. ↗

— Aaron Carter

#consumers #i #real #real artist #real thing

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it. ↗

— Michael Medved

#consumes #fretting #industry #little #much

Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil's tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices for the American consumer. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#absolutely nothing #american #american consumer #big #consumer

Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well. ↗

— Olympia Snowe

#consumers #countries #foster #indeed #industrialized