Quotes About Fad

Critics of McKinsey (and management consulting in general) say that the Firm bases its solutions on the most current management fad—the favorite tool in its intellectual toolbox.

I remember when people called Facebook a fad.

It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.

In the extreme, fads can arise, spread through, and then disappear from a community in a fraction of a human generation.

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

Rule #5 Just because something is popular doesn't mean it's good.

this women's liberation thing is simply an American fad" and would pass.

A fad is an innovation that represents a relatively unimportant aspect of culture, which diffuses very rapidly, mainly for status reasons, and then is rapidly discontinued.

What is hot now will not be hot tomorrow, I promise you. Trends are made to die. It's the truth.

It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.

If you come up with something that's useless and promote it the right way, everybody will have to have it yesterday, even though they get up the next morning and wonder why they bought it.

A trend is exactly that, and it's going to disappear.

I'll tell you what bothers me. This music business is so crazy. They think everything is a game, or everything is a fad or trend to win. I see people saying, 'My next album is going to be my honest album, the whole truth, nothing but the truth, my deepest secrets, the soundtrack to my life.'

Trends die. That's the natural thing about a trend. It's natural for people to be followers and be sheep and go with a trend.

When I hear about something allegedly happening in the world I always ask: 'Who is doing it?' Trends break out because they're based on real demographics, like there being fewer nuclear families or more people living alone. If 10 people in Shoreditch are doing it, it's a 10-minute fad.

I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.

Taking in and blowing out smoke? And now you see girls smoking cigars. It got to be such a fad. Girls on the covers of magazines, smoking cigars. Give me a break. I didn't want to be a part of that. I don't like 'popular.'

Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.

When something get hot, everybody want to jump on the bandwagon and act like they created it.

This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.

There were a lot of labels in the '90s that were fashionable for a time and then crashed.

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

I had always thought that meditation was for ladies who lunch and have nothing better to do but indulge in whatever the latest fad may be.