Quotes About Trends

Feature films seem geared toward very large budgets, action, broad comedy. That seems to dominate all year where it used to be relegated to summer.

If you look at the charts, there's not a lot of male artists and for whatever reason, female artists sell a lot more records and get played a lot more on the radio.

Fashion does seem to have a '20s comeback every few seasons, and I completely see why. It's a very feminine look: the fabrics and the shapes are very pretty and distinctive.

There are very few things that are certain in this market - apart from one, and that is that small displacement diesels are dead.

We discovered that there are actually fewer companies actually buying data.

What you've seen from the 1980s, particularly in this country, is far fewer people doing Saturday jobs and doing jobs after school.

Democratic foursomes don't work in the '70s like they did in the '60s, when there were fewer musical directions.

Rock fans are pretty fickle, too, you know.

Television can be a very fickle place.

America is fickle. You never know what they're going to go for.

What's interesting about the fans is, fans are very fickle. They all have their own opinion.

I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.

Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.

Financial advice needs to change according to what is happening in the economy.

America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.

I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are a lot of 'whoah whoa whoahs,' this stadium thing. You're even getting that from some of the 'folk' groups. I can't stand it.

Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.

I tend to think that the whole concept of, 'I saw this TV show, and someone was wearing this sweater, and now I'm going to buy that,' it's something that's been talked about for a long time, but I've never really seen it work. When people are watching an entertainment show, they want to be entertained.

Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should begin with a blank canvas and an open mind, not with the nervous borrowings of other people's mediocrities. That's precisely what 'trends' are - a search for something 'safe' - and why a reliance on them leads to oblivion.

The things that have been most popular with people have always been a total surprise, and so I've never felt like I could really truthfully predict public taste, so why bother?

The stylish kids on the street, they're the ones that set the trends. The designers see what they're doing and go and design their line and sell it back to the same kids, and it's like, why not go directly to the source?

Gooseberries should be mainstream berries! Why are chemically fattened strawberries a thing? Why not the delicious gooseberry?

Keeping fit, six pack abs, fights is all part of this age, so why not give a platform to make money out of it and not just give everything to cricket.

Yes I agree shows sometimes go over dramatic, hit tracks get repeated, but then why not also talk about the kind of interesting shows that the medium is churning?