Quotes About Trends

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

By the way, even the politicians who often anger me with their short-sightedness and their malice are not, for the most part, evil-minded. They are, rather, inexperienced, easily infected with the particularisms of the time, easily manipulated by suggestive trends and prevailing customs; often they are simply caught up, unwillingly, in the swirl of bad politics, and find themselves unable to extricate themselves because they are afraid of the risks this would entail.

Milk has been a key growth factor, be it in Japan or in the Netherlands. Before the Second World War, Dutch males were smaller than American men, but post-1950 US milk consumption declined while in the Netherlands it rose until the 1960s—and it remains higher than in the US. The lesson is obvious: the easiest way to improve a child's chances of growing taller is for them to drink more milk. Is life expectancy finally topping out?

National Opinion Research Center surveys reveal that the percentage of Americans who describe themselves as "very happy" has been steadily declining since the late 1950s.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time.

When it comes to beauty, I'm all about lashes right now.

It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

You've got to listen to your body, notice some trends in yourself and do the best you can to be ready when a finish line approaches.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

It's hard to find things that won't sell online.

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.

I'm rather old-fashioned about this video business. It's all relatively new. We really don't do videos, Fleetwood Mac. We've only done two.

They represent tomorrow's cigarette business. . . As this 14-24 age group matures, they will account for a key share of the total cigarette volume -- for at least the next 25 years.

I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

The three principal trends affecting how we do business in the newspaper production industry might best come under the headings: automation, diversification, distributed print.

Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn.

I'm a big believer that media is an impulse business.

Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now.

[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.

The course of business shapes public opinion.

Some people hold themselves above the fashion business but are still complicit and fall prey to it.

1540 and 1547 prices rose by 46 per cent; in 1549 they had risen by another 11 per cent.

The truly important events on the outside are not the trends. They are changes in the trends.

The truly important events on the outside are not the trends. They are changes in the trends. These determine ultimately success or failure of an organization and its efforts. Such changes, however, have to be perceived; they cannot be counted, defined, or classified. The classifications still produce the expected figures—as they did for the Edsel. But the figures no longer correspond to actual behavior.