Quotes About Consumerism

If all online products at all online stores are the same, then of course I'll use a price-shopping Web site to find the cheapest product

Theodore Levitt famously said, "People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill bit. They want a quarter-inch hole." The lesson is that the drill bit is merely a feature, a means to an end, but what people truly want is the hole it makes.

Harvard marketing professor Theodore Levitt famously said, "People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill bit. They want a quarter-inch hole.

Authenticity in the marketplace is a myth, what people want is to be understood and to be served, not merely witness whatever you feel like doing in a given moment.

Perhaps love in the digital age is more like Netflix binge-watching: we enjoy bursts of fantasy, and then move on to something else when it's done. Like browsing for a new series on Netflix, if the relationship doesn't fit perfectly, you can trade it in for something new with the click of a button or a swipe on your phone.

It is true that a Hindu without a horoscope is like an American without a credit card, and is subject to many of the same disabilities.

Out of curiosity, why would you have tried to destroy the world?" "Ever attempted to hunt down a parking space at Christmas? Buy a shirt in a store the day after Thanksgiving? Those two things alone will make you doubt the humanity of humans, and question if survival of the species is in anyone's best interest. What are we fighting for, anyway? Better department store sales?

I was the all-American face. You name it, honey - American Dairy Milk, Metropolitan Life insurance, McDonald's, Burger King. The Face That Didn't Matter - that's what I called my face.

Reality TV has managed to commodify everything we used to think of as the elements of normal life.

Consumerism has brought us anxiety. Set aside time to play with your children, and turn off the TV when they sit down to eat.

I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of contemporary life.

I can't wait for the iPhone 6. It's my only ambition in life to have it quickly.

Apparently we're now in a state where most ads are full of people looking at us in a way that would heat us up down to our toes if it happened in real life, and we don't think anything of it.

Who are these people that spend that much for performing clowns and $1,000 for toy sailboats? What kinda work they do and how they live and how come we ain't in on it?

Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

You can die from kitsch. And we're close to it.

On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger's considered view of the painting, looking at it from aesthetic, art-historical, interior-design, and psychological points of view, was that it had cost forty-seven thousand pounds, plus VAT.

You could not spend your entire span of life in thrall to the code of stuff. There was no code of stuff. Stuff was just stuff. You couldn't live by it or for it.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

families where the parents float around in a haze of brightly coloured hemp and honey-almond candles, a copy of a self-help book tucked under an arm, and a Dalai Lama keyring for their four-wheel-drive clutched in their hand.

Consumer society begins at the moment when what was once the province or function of the family and community migrates to the marketplace.

Today's mercantile society exploits the will to jouissance so as to repress it all the more.