Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Hypercommercialism. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Hypercommercialism Quotes And Sayings by 97 Authors including Susan Willis,Ludwig Von Mises,John Kremer,Xun Zi,Robin Sharma for you to enjoy and share.
The often repeated delight that families express in recognizing and experiencing togetherness is wholly contained by the way the pleasure of a collective experience is produced by consumption and reinforces consumerism.
To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position.
Giving back or giving forward is the one true law of marketing.
A person is born with a liking for profit.
People do business with people who make them feel special.
Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though it does the constant apparent sacrifice of the individual to the common interests.
The advertising profession transformed the capitalist model of buyers making
rational choices in a free market into a consumerist model where the buyer was
driven by irrational emotions associated with particular brand names and/or
products.
The economic and marketing forces of modern society have engineered an environment ... that maximize[s] consumption at the long-term cost of well-being,
Consumer society begins at the moment when what was once the province or function of the family and community migrates to the marketplace.
Paradoxically, what keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn't work: The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more, keep buying, keep consuming.
I'm a hypercompetitive individual.
In a civilization devoted to the strictly abstract and mathematical ideal of making the most money in the least time, the only sure method of success is to cheat the customer, to sell various kinds of nothingness in pretentious packages.
The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others.
The attitude inherent in consumerism is that of swallowing the whole world. The consumer is the eternal suckling crying for the bottle.
Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.
Consumerism is our national religion.
I walked inside Macy's and faced the pathetic spectacle of a department store full of shoppers, none of whom were shopping for themselves. Without the instant gratification of a self-aimed purchase, everyone walked around in the tactical stupor of the financially obligated.
At a deep psychological level, convincing young people that they will get the respect, admiration, love that they are looking for through consumerism is a manipulation of a deep human instinct to want to belong.
Artificial needs stimulated artificial greeds.
Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.
Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
Network marketing is really the greatest source of grass-roots capitalism, because it teaches people how to take a small bit of capital, that is your time, and build the American dream.
A consumerist attitude may lubricate the wheels of the economy; it sprinkles sand into the bearings of morality.
Consumer goods become enlightenment, relationships, anything! It doesn't really matter because infinity exists in everything. "Greater than the greatest, smaller than the smallest, the self dwells in the hearts of all," that is the Upanishads.
Marketing is a contest for people's attention.
Reciprocal marketing, promotions and links. In public good experiments, behavioral economists have demonstrated that the potential for reciprocal actions by players increases the rate of contribution to the public good, providing evidence for the importance of reciprocity in social situations.
Capitalism encourages entrepreneurs to act with consideration for others even when their ultimate motive is to benefit themselves.
To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of consumption; and equality in consumption cannot be achieved except by violence.
Once sufficient concentration and merging have taken place, the winners hope to be free to establish a more orderly form of competition between themselves, one where they create differential advantages for their stores, so that 'their shoppers' no longer see one store as substitutable for any other.
A man's drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity.
Marketing is not bragging, and touting one's wares is not evil. The baker in the medieval town square must holler, 'Fresh rolls!' if he hopes to feed the townfolk.
The result is that children now live in an "ethos of fantasy consumerism." Modern American childhood, says Cross,
Generosity overpowers greed.
There are times when product is more important than people and sometimes the people are more important than the product.
People are sometimes willing to sacrifice the pleasure they get from a particular consumption experience in order to project a certain image to others.
Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume in stead of our freedom to find our place in the world.
When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.
Greed applied is prosperity realized".
~R. Alan Woods [2006]
Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of a nouveau post-human, consumer hedonism.
Know your product. Know your customer. And never, ever, underestimate the power of greed.
We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.
Why would you as a consumer continue to support a product that exists to build someone's empire or satisfy shareholders, when you could buy a product that exists 100 per cent to help someone else? (pg 168)
Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.
Buying is an activity understood by economists. Shopping is a phenomenon of interest to anthropologists and sociologists.
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
Consumerism sees the consumption of ever more products and services as a positive thing. It encourages people to treat themselves, spoil themselves, and even kill themselves slowly by overconsumption. Frugality is a disease to be cured.
The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of money to spend on advertising.
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.
Greed knows no boundaries
There are more and more products with fewer people able to consume them. We have to help those who don't have the economic stability to grow, or one day there will be very few who are able to buy what we're selling.
It's called relationship building, and it's the foundation of great network marketing businesses.
Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself.
In our industrial and social system the interests of all men are so closely intertwined that in the immense majority of cases a straight-dealing man who by his efficiency, by his ingenuity and industry, benefits himself must also benefit others.
Because of the value placed on individual materialistic success in our society, we are surrounded by people primarily interested in getting something from others. Their attitudes are characterised by selfishness and a lack of empathy for others.
Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.
marketing has a beginning and a middle but not an ending.
Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing.
It is impossible not to notice how little the proponents of the ideal of competition have to say about honesty, which is the fundamental economic virtue, and how very little they have to say about community, compassion, and mutual help.
Selling is a form of serving the needs of others.
Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance.
Though many intellectuals, following in the footsteps of Saints Augustine and Jerome, hold business people in contempt for their selfishness and greed, in fact a free market puts a premium on empathy.
Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages.
All money is essentially merchandize.
The television commercial has oriented business away from making products of value and toward making consumers feel valuable, which means that the business of business has now become pseudo-therapy. The consumer is a patient assured by psycho-dramas.
War and marketing have many similarities.
We see ourselves as inhabiting a complex social world that has some capitalist things going on in it as well as some socialist ones, some communist ones, and many where economics are not separated out of the broader fabric of life (such as sharing and gift giving, and mutual support).
Cultural products will spread faster and wider when everybody can see what everybody else is doing. It suggests that the future of many hit-making markets will be fully open, radically transparent, and very, very unequal.
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.
People attempt to create association b/n you and your values. Oh, Mary- the girl who is caring; you mean the company with quality products?
At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.
The hope has vanished that the problem of justly distributing goods can be sidetracked by creating an abundance of them. The cost of the minimum packages capable of satisfying modern tastes has skyrocketed, and what makes tastes modern is their obsolescense prior even to satisfaction.
Some people have low susceptibility to advertising and marketing techniques. These are the people who aren't interested in money. Material acquisition does not serve their need for the power process.
The most impactful way consumers can assert their power is to become mindful shoppers, giving their dollars only to socially responsible companies. In today's world of social media and smart phones, this is easy to do.
Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.
Obsess about customers, not competitors.
I'm totally anti-commercialism.
The notion that economic life is a distinct realm, governed by immutable laws of narrow self-interest, is giving way to a much older notion: economic life is only one strand in the rich web of human relationships.
Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill.
When a consumer derives value - especially from something that was given to him for free - he becomes the best kind of evangelist.
Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.
Shopping malls are liquid TVs for the end of the twentieth century. A whole micro-circuitry of desire, ideology and expenditure for processed bodies drifting through the cyber-space of ultracapitalism.
Civilization is the commercialization of survival.
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.
Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation
We're not competitor obsessed, we're customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards.
Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.
The concept of the megachurch - some have attributed that to me. Whatever people want to buy, they can get it in the shopping center. It's one-stop shopping. Churches should be that way.
Greed has no boundaries
A social conscience is not incompatible with profit.
I content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade is a system of selfishness, is not dictated by the high sentiments of human nature much less by the sentiments of love and heroism but is a system of distrust not of giving, but of taking advantage.
I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system.
Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.
I ... thought about societies where exceptional fortunes are built up in industries with very little connection to out sincere and significant needs, industries where it is difficult to escape from the disparity between a seriousness of means and a triviality of ends.
Creating Customer Evangelists, The Power of Cult Branding, and Creating Raving Fans.
The temptation to entertain instead of selling is contagious.
And recently, we installed another word in its place which, to their minds, has a wholly positive connotation. We say 'Gluttony'. They say 'Consumerism'.
Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.