Faith Popcorn Quotes

“Make your company stock a consumer product. When consumers buy stock in your company, they'll never buy a competitive product. You've linked their financial future to yours.”

“Stop competing on price; compete on value. Deliver total consumer solutions, rather than just your piece of the solution.”

“The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.”

“They’ll put a refrigerator in your garage and bar code your kitchen. Every week they’ll restock your favorites, without your ever having to reorder. They’ll even pick up your dry cleaning, return your videotapes, whatever you need.”

“We are hungry for things that have touched human hands.”

“Women are opening businesses at twice the rate of men. Forty percent of businesses will be owned by women. Women are saying, I don't belong in this company. I'm sick of fighting this battle.”

“If the vision is there, the means will follow.”

“Cocooning: The need to protect oneself from the harsh, unpredictable realities of the outside world.”

“To offset a depersonalized society, consumers crave recognition of their individuality.”

“America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy – and how we buy it – we'll change who we are.”

“Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control – a sort of hyper-nesting.”

“It used to be enough just to make a fairly decent product and market it. Not anymore. In the '90s, you've got to have a Corporate Soul.”

“Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.”

“Send me out into another life. But get me back for supper.”

“The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths.”

“The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).”

“This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.”

“Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't.”

“We can never give up the belief that the good guys always win. And that we are the good guys.”

“You can trust a crystal ball about as far as you can throw it.”