There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.
If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only becasue it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.
Older consumers don't want to be treated like teenagers; what's more, they don't want to believe they fall into any niche at all.
I much preferred the approach at the anarchist camp, with its shared tasks and collective responsibilities. Everyone played their part. There was no division between workers and consumers.
The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.
It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers.
I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
People go to Disney because they know its brand attributes. We believe we have an opportunity to go with our content directly to consumers.
Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data it collected.
I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Every man, woman and child consumes, on average, 43 teaspoons of sugar a day. In 13 days, that adds up to a five-pound bag of sugar.
People's attitudes have been changing over the past 15 years, but China is still the world's biggest consumer of dogs.
What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.
We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity.
We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world.
With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.
Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organised political resistance
Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it.
