Quotes About Trends

In the half century after 1950, the global economy grew sixfold. Annual economic growth averaged 3.9 percent per year, far outstripping the estimated historical averages for the industrial age up to that point (1820–1950) of 1.6 percent per year and for the "early modern," post-Columbian world (1500–1820) of 0.3 percent per year

Keep in mind that when we limit our exposure to information, or when information itself is scarce, our picture of reality suffers. We become oblivious to both opportunities and hazards. Trends become invisible. History disappears. It's really just two sides of the same coin: the first commitment is as much a commitment to gathering information, from as many sources and in as much volume as can constructively be used, as it is a commitment to facing the facts.

You can get in a car in Maine and drive all the way to California and hear the same Top 40 songs on the same chain broadcasters," bemoaned the report.

In the recession people are going to be looking even more at what movie stars are wearing, as it provides a fantasy outlet.

The media treats fear like a one-night stand. They jump on it and then they leave the next day and they forget - remember the Alar Scare? Things - see, nobody even remembers Alar.

I think prices have been moving more on speculation than reality. But this is a market that has been driven by fear for two or three years.

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular

You can go with the flow and follow trends when it comes to superficial issues, such as style, but when it comes to moral issues, you should not be swayed by popular opinion.

All the products of one period resemble one another; the artists who illustrate the poetry of their generation are the same artists who are employed by the big financial houses.

We're living in very strange times. The idea of being popular for being outrageous is coming from the leadership,

You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.

much of anything. But put a series together and patterns emerged. Some were obvious: haircuts, weight gained or lost, fashion trends. Others required

Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and honestly charming again a few years later still is one of those things which are not satisfactorily to be explained and are therefore jolly and exciting and an addition to the perennial interest of life.

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.

And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.

What are Americans still buying? Big Macs,Campbell's soup,Hershey's chocolate and Spam--the four food groups of the apocalypse.

No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.

Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses

People are cooking less but obsessing about it more.

Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.

Every week Republicans are excited about a new candidate because the one they liked last week turned out to be a moron.