#market

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #images #marketing #media #scoiety

As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #marketing #self-esteem #society

Even the most beautifully written, perfectly edited and well-designed books will fail if people aren't made aware of them!" ––Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications, on the importance of public relations and marketing. ↗

— Linda F. Radke

#book #market #promote #publish #write

In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly. The net effect is to prevent women's identification with the issues. If the public women is stigmatized as too 'pretty,' she's a threat, a rival--or simply not serious; if derided as too 'ugly,' one risks tarring oneself with the same brush by identifying oneself with her agenda. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#diet-industry #marketing #self-esteem #society #weight

If your Idea cannot CHANGE the INDUSTRY, you have added no VALUE ↗

— Fela Durotoye

#idea #investment #leadership #market #sales

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#marketing #media-of-the-united-states #politician #politics-of-the-united-states #design

The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion dollars a year - used to sell us those products, has overwhelmed the force of tradition and left us where we now find ourselves: relying on science and journalism and government and marketing to help us decide what to eat. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#food #marketing #diet

The past is an educational toy for the present. It should be discarded the moment its usefulness is outgrown. ↗

— Tom Morrison

#romance #satire #stock-market #education

…based on second hand knowledge and first-hand experience, a successful online marketing cocktail looks like this: Equal parts hard work, talent and persistence, shaken for a long, long, long, long time, and some luck skewered onto a toothpick and thrown in for good measure. ↗

— Kristin Weber

#equality

This points to a nagging and important question about free-market ideologues: Are they ‘true believers’, driven by ideology and faith that free markets will cure underdevelopment, as is often asserted, or do the ideas and theories frequently serve as an elaborate rationale to allow people to act on unfettered greed while still invoking an altruistic motive? ↗

— Naomi Klein

#economics #free-market-ideology #milton-friedman #shock-doctrine #faith