Quotes of: Consumer-confidence Keyword

Corporations are not legal “persons” with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.

Culture Jam: How To Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - And Why We Must

In the Soviet Union you weren’t allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.

Culture Jam: How To Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - And Why We Must

Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm that has 'sold out' has succeeded, but an...

Alex Tabarrok

It seems even more worrisome that the world has become even more integrated to the extent that a country that fails to produce its own basic consumables will end up consuming its whole income in outsourcing them.

Can Nigeria Bake Her Own Bread?

You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportun...

Hillary Clinton

Consuming pornography does not lead to more sex, it leads to more porn. Much like eating McDonalds everyday will accustom you to food that (although enjoyable) is essentially not food, pornography conditions the consumer to being satisfied with an im...

Virginie Despentes

I would hesitate to use the word 'success' in the way many people do. I don't know that I would apply it to what I've done as though I have now reached the ultimate goal. To me success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achiev...

Walter Knott

Consumer culture is best supported by markets made up of sexual clones, men who want objects and women who want to be objects, and the object desired ever-changing, disposable, and dictated by the market. The beautiful object of consumer pornography ...

The Beauty Myth

The fiery force is nothing more than the life force as we know it. It is the flame of desire and love, of sex and beauty, of pleasure and joy as we consume and are consumed, as we burn with pleasure and burn out in time.

In the Hub of the Fiery Force: Collected Poems, 1934-2003

writers like Jack Kerouac (who called himself an "urban Thoreau") set forth to redefine and rediscover ways to live in America without slogging through what Kerouac called the endless system of "work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume...

The Last American Man

I think of Google as a set of overlapping things. It's a consumer platform, consumer phenomenon of which search is its fundamental activity, but there are many other things you can do than search... I think of Google as an advertising company who ser...

Eric Schmidt

The whole game was about confidence, as it always was. Everything was fine—until it wasn't.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

One can never rack up his goals mere through hard-work, there is a thing in this world which is known as self-confidence.

The Cavalier

They programmed you with the best of intentions but unfortunately their best was mediocrity.

How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy

To have more, you must genuinely thank more.

How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy

Affection is the source of self-confidence, happiness, security, and a comfortable mental state.

Better to be able to love than to be loveable

Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.

Charles Jencks

A fit body gives you confidence. And there's nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you'll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

Virat Kohli

Please do make your decisions in life and feel confident that they are right. However, if fate is involved, feel just as confident even if they aren’t.

Absolute Obsession

When people have poor confidence in the future, you can be confident of a poor future.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Confidence can be learned - but not from a book. Confidence comes from from living.

More Than Words Can Say: The Making of Inspired Speakers