Betty Furness Quotes

If American industry continues to sow contempt for the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer.

Betty Furness

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• Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Taken
  • Easy
  • Still

• I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Consumer
  • Conform

• A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings of mass civilization, and who has no roots in the order of being, no sense of responsibility for anything higher than his own personal survival, is a demoralized person. The system depends on this demoralization, deepens it, is in fact a projection of it into society.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Society
  • Responsibility
  • Value

• It was a real shame that the technology wasn't up to the creation that was going on with quad. It just wasn't reaching the consumer in the right way.

  

  Alan Parsons
  • Up
  • Real
  • Way

• I'm no advertising genius. I found that if you deliver news and information to the consumer, or the reader, then the advertisers will follow to reach those readers.

  

  Allen Neuharth
  • Information
  • Genius
  • Advertising

• Impact on consumer spending and production broadly will be modest.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Production
  • Consumer
  • Modest

• Freedom is neither a legal invention nor a philosophical conquest, the cherished possession of civilizations more valid than others because they alone have been able to create or preserve it. It is the outcome of an objective relationship between the individual and the space he occupies, between the consumer and the resources at his disposal.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Freedom
  • Relationship
  • Alone

• I feel like I was led to believe something that's not true. I think the consumer is being misled.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Think
  • Consumer
  • Misled

• It all rolls up and I think in the final analysis somewhere it's going to hit the consumer.

  

  Gary North
  • Analysis
  • Hit
  • Consumer

• We believe Pfizer is more likely to either sell this consumer health business or perhaps create some type of partnership with another consumer health business where synergies could exist.

  

  Tony Butler Big Country
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Create

• Our U.S. consumer market share remains on track, with volume share down less than one percentage point for the quarter, but unchanged year to date. We fully expect to meet our strategic goal of at least holding share for the full year, while improving the quality of our product mix toward the premium end.

  

  George Fisher Cannibal Corpse
  • Goal
  • Expect
  • Consumer

• Yes, there may be some convergence to what you see on a screen that's different from the way you will experience a magazine in your hand, but there are lots of ways you can signal differences. Where native advertising and these other things get tricky is when the consumer can't tell the difference between edit and advertising.

  

  Norman Pearlstine
  • Differences
  • Advertising
  • Consumer

• We have no idea in what way tomorrow's consumers will want to consumer their media.

  

  Zanny Minton Beddoes
  • Want
  • Media
  • Consumer

• Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude. That is presumably the object of the multibillion-dollar global advertising industry. Tea drinkers are improbable prospects for Coke sales.

  

  Benjamin Barber
  • Industry
  • Sales
  • Consumer

• A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.

  

  Al Ries
  • Word
  • Brand
  • Consumer

• Exercise your purchasing power as a consumer, volunteer and bring joy to those in need, and share your experiences, tell your stories, and inspire others along the way.

  

  Blake Mycoskie
  • Joy
  • Exercise
  • Experiences

• Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you're an owner. Faith is at its best when it's that way too. It's best lived when it's owned.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Faith
  • Ownership
  • Consumer

• We are fighting for an open and fair economy. We are fighting for the consumer. Someone needs to.

  

  Josh Hawley
  • Fighting
  • Economy
  • Consumer

• I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Done
  • Serious
  • Study

• That one long scene in the Leftovers I have with David Gulpilil was seven pages long. When we finished it, Mimi Leder said, "I thought you were gonna do this in bits and pieces. You just did the whole thing." And I literally couldn't remember the scene. It wasn't that I was in a trance. I said, "Just keep shooting takes until you see what you want." In 48 years of acting, which is also how long I've been married, that had never happened to me.

  

  Scott Glenn
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Acting

• Everybody's moving around a little slow. We've got to come out with a better attitude. It's hard to come back every game. We've got to come out with a sense of urgency right off the get-go.

  

  Brad Wilkerson
  • Game
  • Attitude
  • Urgency

• Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Children
  • Hearts
  • Accomplishment

• If American industry continues to sow contempt for the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer.

  

  Betty Furness
  • Consumer
  • American Industry