Quotes About Trends

Even our beliefs have become trend statements.

Men got all the comfortable clothing trends.

I find that major trends are now frequently preceded by a sharp price change in the opposite direction. I still make my judgments as to probable price trends based on overall market action, as I always did. However, with a few exceptions, I now buy on breaks and sell on rallies.

The worst thing that can happen to you in the markets is being right and still losing money. That's the danger in buying on rallies and selling on breaks these days.

Pick just one trend that you consider unstoppable—5G, sensor technology, big data, AI, blockchain, quantum computing, nanotechnology, robotics, 3D printing, biotechnology, synthetic biology, renewable energy, augmented reality, virtual reality, satellite technology, genomics, gene editing, online education, etc.—and research how it is already impacting your industry.

You go through more bestsellers than a McCarthy bonfire.

In 1980, the wage of a worker in the financial sector was roughly comparable to the wages of workers with the same qualifications in other sectors. By 2006, a person in the financial sector was making 70 percent more.

Basically in every decade since 1840, life expectancy has increased by two to three years. So if a child born in 2007 has a 50 per cent probability of living to 104, then a child born a decade earlier (1997) has a 50% chance of reaching 101 or 102; a decade earlier (1987) the range is 98 to 100; a decade earlier (1977) 95 to 98; for 1967 it is to 92 to 96; and a decade earlier still (1957) the range is 89 to 94, and so on.

It's like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic, so we get less and less varied as people, more simple. So the corps make everything even simpler. And it goes on and on.

In 2016, "Fascism" was searched on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website more often than any other word in English except "surreal," which experienced a sudden spike after the November presidential election.

we have become a nation of ten-minute celebrities. People, issues and causes hit the charts like rock groups, and with approximately as much staying power.

My favorite kind of science fiction is post-apocalyptic dystopia. But I just heard at the bar that genre is going out of style. Frankly, that's not a future I want to live in.

There isn't any question that we are conforming in every possible way to everything that's happening and everything that's going to happen.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

People of each generation in the twentieth century "were three times more likely to experience depression" than people of the preceding generation.

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.

Being insecure is still in, right? Or have we all moved on to full on self-loathing?

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

Great people discuss eras, average people discuss trends, and small people discuss labels.

What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another.

La història mai no es repeteix, però hom diria que tot sovint es complau a jugar amb els mateixos elements.

Some gaps are caused because as the market approaches a level of support or resistance or a previous high or low, there will be an abnormally large number of stops just outside that area. When those stops get hit, it can cause a sharp move in the market, resulting in the gap.

A fashionable milieu is one in which each person's opinion is made up of everyone else's opinions. Does each opinion run counter to everyone else's? Then it is a literary milieu.