Quotes About Trends

When I started on the London circuit in 1989, nationwide there were about 150 to 200 people that were what you could call alternative comedians - that weren't club comics. Now, last year when the Laughing Horse chain of clubs held a new acts competition, a thousand people entered. So, there are 800 people more.

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

Are we moving from a society where we ask "Why rent when you can buy?" to a society where we ask "Why own when you can rent by the hour?"

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

As Newsweek reported in an August 2010 article, "The Golden Age of Innovation," the locus of entrepreneurship in America has shifted to the fifty-five-to-sixty-four age group. Individuals over fifty-five are nearly twice as likely to create successful companies as their counterparts in the twenty-to-thirty-four age group.

Once is interesting. Twice is happenstance. Three times, it's a game. Patterns are things that happen that you really couldn't prove in court, but damn it, you know they happen!

I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world.

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

In projecting the future, I think Apple did a good job of figuring out when the technology was ready to be consumer-grade.

If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going to have a significant impact over the next 10 years is already 10 years old!

Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.

Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.

Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.

You see a wave of populism in the world. There is something wrong. This maybe because of technology.

End-users not technologies shape the market. Consequently marketers need to stay abreast not only of technological developments but also of the way people respond to them.

I use a Blackberry. I'm so behind on mobile communication technology, I think a smartwatch may be too far a leap.

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.

I do have a stylist who helps me shop, because I don't have time to shop.

A week is a long time in politics.

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

You're always a child of your time, and you cannot step out of that.

To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time or energy on regrets and wishful thinking.

History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.

Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.