395 Quotes About Consumerism

Salesmanship is usually the art of making it the prospect’s problem, the salesperson’s need or desire to earn money.

I mean, there aren't many inventions that actually succeed in meeting some human need. Ninety-nine percent of them are just some ugly combo of pushy marketing and spineless consumers.

Great marketers see potential customers as real people. They create campaigns that appeal to their, wants, needs and desires.

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

The more a certain product activates the reward center with its unique characteristics or its predominant social stature, the more that product gets chiseled into the long-term memory of the consumer, making it a fundamental part of the individual's psychological well being.

When deeply religious subjects view sacred iconography or reflect on their notion of God, brain scans reveal hyperactivity in the caudate nucleus, a part of the pleasure system that correlates with feelings of joy, love, and serenity. But Lindstrom and Calvert found that this same brain region lights up when subjects view images associated with strong brands like Ferrari or Apple.

Marketing's illusive promise is that this one product will change your life, make you feel more sexy, satisfy all your heart's desires.

Don’t obsess over having the 'latest' version of a product. For there was a time that the previous version was the latest.

Civilization is not the one that has an abundance of material objects to incessantly crave for, rather true civilization is the one that has an abundance of contentment regardless of material possession.