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.
I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.
Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data it collected.
Europe is a strong market for the U.S. If it has problems, if there's a lack of consumer confidence, if there's a deeper recession, this will deeply affect jobs in the U.S.
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.
A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.
