Quotes About Trends

One of my favorite eras is the '80s. I'm an '80s baby to the world, love everything about the '80s.

It's totally true: Ariel, Christopher Owens, me, and Courtney Love, all in Saint Laurent ads, all with the same haircut.

What were the seventies even about? Was it all smoking and listening to this kind of stuff and riding around in huge cars without wearing seat belts? This was the song everyone liked?

Books don't go out of fashion with children. They just go out of fashion with adults and publishers.

The second section of the book leaves Sony behind, along with Hollywood's past, to look at companies, trends, and people that reveal where the movie business

But make sure you remember this: The people who now claim that the next "sure thing" will be health care, or energy, or real estate, or gold, are no more likely to be right in the end than the hypesters of high tech turned out to be.

The longer the bull market lasts the more severely investors will be affected with amnesia; after five years or so, many people no longer believe that bear markets are possible.

By the time everyone decides that a given industry is "obviously" the best one to invest in, the prices of its stocks have been bid up so high that its future returns have nowhere to go but down.

The speculative public is incorrigible. In financial terms it cannot count beyond 3.

Everyone wants new things all the time; shops require so much - there has to be consistency.

If you've been around as long as I have, watching the literary scene, then you know that who's in and who's out changes by the year. It's really a very fluid situation that requires that the person who is having the good luck now isn't having it a year or two from now.

A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the '90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction.

Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed.

I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.

The thing about the Internet is we take everything too far. Once something becomes 'popular' in our realm, it's everywhere, and I get sick of hearing about it quickly.

When I first started recording, I was told by all of the experts in the business that the kind of music that I was doing was never going to sell. That disco was the coming thing and it was going to take over and what I was interested in was a minor sideline.

The 70's hair with the long on the sides, just doesn't look good coming down the sides of the helmet.

I used to ask my mom to try and shave my head on the sides to give me a receding hairline because Adam Ant had one.

In the office, you kind of lose sight. You have to go to the restaurants to see what's really happening.

The danger is we're losing sight of what women really want to wear.

Good rom-coms have some reflection of the way things are, the sign of the times.

Music and fashion are a sign of the times and a reflection of what people want and need at this very day and age.

There are too many remakes, too many reimaginings. Nothing new, and that's always a bad sign. They remade 'Frankenstein' 26 times between 1930 and 1970, so it's not a new phenomenon.

Gaming provides us with some very good signals about consumers and what they're interested in.