Quotes About Trends

Social media is so influential now.

Once you've worked as a writer and editor in the world of social media for a decade, the way I have, you start to notice patterns.

Social media is an ever-changing world. You want to be ready if a certain platform becomes red-hot, and you don't want someone else taking your company name as his or her handle. That does happen!

I will always do music, and now - with where the world is going with social media and people dropping stuff for free and doing this and doing that - there's no excuse.

I'm not on any social media; I don't even know what things are. I'm so behind the times.

I'm so fascinated by the influence of social media on fashion. I've seen so many artists on Instagram, up and comers you would have never known otherwise.

In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.

I'm not good with blogs and social networks because those things come and go. By the time I am used to one thing, a new type of social media is already trending.

Since the end of the 1970s, free-market capitalism has been in, and socialism has been out.

It could fairly be said that the U.S. is increasingly out of step with the rest of the world. As our neighbors to the south elect left-wing or even socialist governments, we are lurching further to the right. As Europe becomes less engaged to the Church, we are becoming more fundamentalist.

I was a woman and younger. I started spending a lot of time in the mall doing a lot of qualitative research and really watching what consumers were doing. Were they gravitating towards the sales racks, or were they looking at the new fashions? Were they there to shop, or were they there to socialize?

We feel the game industry is changing in some major ways. 'Fortnite' is a harbinger of things to come. It's a massive number of people all playing together, interacting together, not just playing but socializing.

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

The next generation of luxury consumers are much more socially conscious, and they look to invest in brands that see the world the way they do.

I've written about how mortality is a wonderful indicator of societal progress.

Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

Art reflects society. Cinema doesn't dictate - you portray what the society demands.

I see groups that are hot one minute, and next time you see them, they're asking if you want a soda with that Happy Meal.

For a long time, companies ignored the fact that 80 percent of sporting goods are sold to the casual consumer.

Well, you know, back then there wasn't many albums, it was the singles. You sold singles.

I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you're in the charts.

I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs. Today, record companies are failing because they are putting their accent just on the young, and I think that's rather silly.

There are nine million servers sold annually. Of those, just one million are sourced by the big guys. What we're trying to predict is: in the future, is that all going into the one million category? Or will there be some balance?