Being A Smart Consumer Quotes

Smart is not just a word; it's an attitude. ~ Ogwo David Emenike

You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart. ~ Gabrielle Union

Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through. ~ Terry Pratchett

Those are my goals, you know. To be smart, tasteless, and feeling. Something to shoot for. ~ Guy Maddin

Be smart, but never show it. ~ Louis B. Mayer

Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart? ~ Edward Young

These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise families and look after themselves, that's all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise! ~ Ajahn Chah

I know it sounds weird, but my definition of 'sexy' has changed as I've gotten older. And being smart and informed makes me feel sexier than any outfit. ~ Sarah Shahi

I think we have a great track record on being relevant, on identifying consumer trends, needs and wants. ~ Jim Cantalupo

I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us. ~ Bennie Thompson

If you can't be smart or funny, be brief. ~ J.A. Konrath

Being smart in the arts is the same as being smart in engineering is the same as being smart in writing is the same as being smart in anything, really. It's the ability to manipulate all the pieces of the puzzle in your mind, try to fit them together, and when they don't fit quite right ... you sand the edges/corners and make them all fit. ~ Gerald Jay Sussman

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. ~ Eugene McCarthy

We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it. ~ Tabatha Coffey

As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available. ~ Dan Levitan

I don't know if you're being smart or not, but I know that being smart doesn't always lead to being happy. And I'd rather be happy than anything else ~ Ryan Winfield

All the social things the consumer has gotten used to are being applied to business. ~ Ram Shriram

There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate. ~ Rachel Bloom

And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer. ~ John Green

In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating. ~ Zygmunt Bauman

You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable ... it's your choice ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish. ~ Charles Baxter

We're in a world now where it's not enough to be smart. You have to be curious. ~ Barry Diller

I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in. ~ Garson Kanin

If your work is so smart that only smart people get it, it's not that smart. ~ Chris Rock

As long as you're consistently working on your craft, your heart is in the right place, and you pair that with being smart on how you present yourself to people, opportunities will appear. ~ Jay Ellis

You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough not to think about all the things that might go wrong. ~ Sarah Gilbert

It's about being smart, taking your time, keeping your composure, just going out there and being the best that you can be ~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science! ~ Steve Wozniak

Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart. ~ Mel Brooks

They don't understand that I'm just choosing to be dumb. I'm not dumb. I'm just choosing not to be smart at the moment, but if I put in effort, then I could be really smart, but I choose not to. ~ Jonah

I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful. ~ Danica McKellar

I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it. ~ Walter Dean Myers

Being smart means you learned it well; being stupid means you haven't learned it yet; but true genius means you know it when no one taught it to you. ~ Sneha Abraham

Being in the consumer business helps us groom talent in areas like marketing, finance and logistics. We can benchmark our outsourcing business to our consumer business and its best practices. ~ Azim Premji

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart?
What?
I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense. ~ Billy Bob Thornton

A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright. ~ Lucille Ball

Caterham realises corporate America and the American consumer market ... is the largest consumer market in the world and it is something that needs to be part of Formula One. ~ Alexander Rossi

He was smart, but he had to be smarter. No points for second place. ~ Kenneth Eade

When you focus on the consumer, the consumer responds. ~ Alexander Wang

I think of myself as just another consumer. ~ Roelof Botha

You don't have to be smart to act - look at the outgoing president of the United States. ~ Cher

I'd rather be smart than a movie star. ~ Natalie Portman

When you have somebody that's smart and you're not so smart, to me that's modern day slavery because you're being dictated to. ~ Bernard Hopkins

The world is changing ... I don't, as a consumer, want advertising that's not relevant. If we're going to take a side, let's take the side of the consumer. ~ Charlie Ergen

You know," he said, "at some point you're going to realize that being a smart-ass isn't as much about being smart as it is about being an ass." "That's good," I said. "Did you read that in a fortune cookie? ~ Garth Stein

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb. ~ Yul Brynner

I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work. ~ Catherine Zeta-Jones

Consumers never complain about ads being too smart. ~ Lee Clow

I would say the consumer Internet companies - in a lot of ways, if you go inside the consumer Internet companies and you see how they run, it's how all their businesses are going to run. ~ Marc Andreesen

No matter how much control kids get over the media they watch, they are still utterly powerless when it comes to the manufacturing of brands. Even a consumer revolt merely reinforces one's role as a consumer, not an autonomous or creative being. ~ Douglas Rushkoff

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment. ~ Judy Holliday

I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person. ~ Michael Moore

But if you get chronically, psychosocially stressed, you're going to compromise your health. So, essentially, we've evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves sick. ~ Robert M. Sapolsky

If beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, value is in the mind of the consumer. ~ Michele Jennae

You still should enjoy the beach and going outside. Having a good time at the beach can still include being smart about protecting your skin because getting burned is no fun at all. ~ Brande Roderick

The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly -whether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition at home and free trade throughout the world. The consumer is protected from being exploited by one seller by the existence of another seller from whom he can buy and who is eager to sell to him. Alternative sources of supply protect the consumer far more effectively than all the Ralph Naders of the world. ~ Milton Friedman

No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person ~ Stephen King

Companies that were paying attention understood they were witnessing the birth of the "self-directed consumer", because the internet and all the other tools for the flat world had created a means for every consumer to customize exactly the price, experience, and service he or she wanted. ~ Thomas L. Friedman

Ambient Devices develops a new generation of consumer electronic products. ~ David Rose

Xerox did OK in moving to digital in the commercial space. They didn't do well in the consumer market, but they're not a consumer brand. They don't even know how to spell consumer. ~ Antonio Perez

I'm part of the consumer culture ... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more.' ~ Michel Gondry

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about. ~ Solomon Short

My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school. ~ Levon Helm

What was really tough for me was that Lars Magnus Ericsson founded Ericsson in 1876; we've always had a consumer product. And I'm the 16th CEO of Ericsson, and I decided that we don't have any consumer products anymore. ~ Hans Vestberg

I wanted to be an actor to act, and now, being an actor, you have to dress up, you have to be nice, you have to be smart, you have to be sexy, you have to be ready. ~ Vincent Cassel

Be smart, be thoughtful, be generous. ~ Ashton Kutcher

Consumer electronics is a challenging one. ~ Kevin Rollins

Medical tourism can be considered a kind of import: instead of the product coming to the consumer, as it does with cars or sneakers, the consumer is going to the product. ~ James Surowiecki

The female love interest is boring to me. A female that's interesting, smart, funny - that's what I'm drawn to. I wouldn't say that every character has to be smart, but she has to have one trait I can relate to. ~ Aubrey Plaza

Smart cities are the intelligent cities of positivity and happy-energy, not the junkyards of technologies but cities of diversity, love, life, beauty, dignity, freedom, tolerance, and equality. ~ Amit Ray

I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating. ~ Kristin Scott Thomas

A smart city is an intelligent town that provides enormous possibilities for human growth through art, culture, social, architectural, economic, political, environmental, and scientific flowering with the optimal mix of nature, technology, humanity, and arts. ~ Amit Ray

Good first drafts and speedy responses to consumer dialog will always trump lawyered corporate speak. ~ John Battelle

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand. ~ Michael Pollan

Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods. ~ Yuri Andropov

Being drunk leads smart people to do stupid things, which is what is so interesting. ~ Kit Williamson

Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so. ~ Aisha Tyler

I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever. ~ Andrea Bocelli

Consumption is a universal phenomenon. All humans consume varieties of products, many of which beyond actual necessity, because it activates the brain's reward center. And 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. Thus the human mind grows a deep psychological bond with a product. And this bond can grow so strong in time that it would defend itself from all sorts of criticisms. It is the brain's way to maintain its internal purely individualistic well being. Hence, a strong psychological bond between the mind and a product slowly not only becomes invincible to criticisms, but also, develops its own cognitive immune system against such criticisms. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine. ~ Elizabeth Warren

Being in The Fall isn't like being in another group. It isn't a holiday. A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me. ~ Mark E. Smith

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave. ~ James Randi

In consumer life we become what we consume-disposable junk to be used and thrown away. ~ Bryant McGill

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart. ~ Dolly Parton

With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today's culture, I think it's super important to promote staying smart online. ~ G. Hannelius

... if you're going to be a smart ass you should start with being smart, otherwise, you're really just an ass. ~ Christine Zolendz

Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending. ~ Alex Berenson

GIS is being influenced by and integrating with all kinds of new innovations such as faster computing, big data, the cloud, smart devices, and distributed processing. ~ Jack Dangermond

Being smart takes patience. Being wise takes pain. Being apathetic takes practice. Being in love takes everything ... away. ~ Dave Matthes

It's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart. ~ Laura Lippman

Well, I'd rather choose to be beautiful, um, because, to be beautiful it's natural. But being smart you can learn ... you can learn, um, a lot of things ... a lot of things from the experience ... you can learn from a lot of things being smart. ~ Sarah Palin

I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

There are always more smart people outside your company than within it. ~ Bill Joy

Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire. ~ Bob Iger

Anyone who wears glasses can be an Oakley consumer. ~ James Jannard

If I had a daughter, I would tell her certain things. I would tell her that it's great to be smart, really smart - that being smart makes you strong. I would tell her that emotions are powerful, so don't be afraid to show them. I would tell her that some people may judge you on how you look or what you wear - that's just how it is - but you should keep your focus on what you say and do. I would tell her that she may see the world differently from boys, and that difference is essential and good. ~ Kirsten Gillibrand

Being a friend is hard." "If it was easy, anyone could do it." "I love smart women." "Smart women love you." "I'd better go." "Call me later. ~ Robert Crais

It's important to be smart, but it's also important to be active with your intelligence. The more you sit around over-thinking things, the more trouble you get into. ~ Alisa Valdes

Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices. ~ Hans Vestberg