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“Before the Internet, you could move to a new state and no one at school would know anything about you.”
— Emma Rathbone, Before the Internet
Tagged: 90s vs. 2000s, How We Lived Before The Web, Quote of the Moment
“Before the Internet, you could laze around on a park bench in Chicago reading some Dean Koontz, and that would be a legit thing to do and no one would ever know you had done it unless you told them.”
— Emma Rathbone, Before the Internet
Tagged: 90s vs. 2000s, How We Lived Before The Web, Quote of the Moment, Magazine, Boredom, Childhood, Internet, Technology
“Last quarter, Twitter beat Wall Street’s estimates when it came to adding new users, but ad revenue declined year-on-year for the first time since it became a public company.”
— Lara O’Reilly, CMO Today: Welcome to Cannes; ‘The Ad Maze’ Special Report; Twitter’s New TV Ad
Tagged: twiter, Business, Marketing, markets, Advertising, corporate, industrial news, political, general news, Arts, Entertainment, Television, radio, computers, consumer electronics, Software, applications software, Public Relations, Business, consumer services, communications software, Computing, Internet, Online, Media, social media platforms, Tools, Technology
“And there’s an integrity to the Whole Foods culture. And I think they are gonna respect that integrity. They’re really smart people. They’re not stupid enough to go in and trash the very asset that they are spending billions of dollars to acquire.”
— John Mackey, UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION: WHOLE FOODS MARKET, INC
Tagged: Amazon and Whole Foods, mergers
“One of the things they do better than us, they are more customer-centric than we are. They really are. And one of my takeaways is that, by God, we're gonna become as customer-centric as Amazon. We're gonna— we're gonna— we're gonna import their passion about that.”
— John Mackey, UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION: WHOLE FOODS MARKET, INC
Tagged: Amazon and Whole Foods, mergers
“I want to be in Manhattan like everybody else, but at what cost? I can do a lot more creative good work in other cities.”
— Bashar Wali, The Hunt For The Next Portland: Hoteliers Bet Big On Small City America
Tagged: Don't Live In New York City, Cost of Living, Manhattan
“Regardless of the path, one thing is clear: There’s big money in small(er) America.”
— Rina Raphael, The Hunt For The Next Portland: Hoteliers Bet Big On Small City America
Tagged: Rural America, Development
“I’m sorry to have led you on, there’s no good that could ever come out of this. I’ve got no room for you in my life. I am complicated. Here’s money for a cab home.”
— Alcoa, Cab Rides & Cigarettes
Tagged: One Night Stand, Lead On
“Order another to keep you numb, to keep you numb.”
— Alcoa, Cab Rides & Cigarettes
Tagged: Alcohol, Drinking
“Knowing these seemingly inexpensive social norms is itself a rite of passage into today’s aspirational class. And that rite is far from costless: The Economist subscription might set one back only $100, but the awareness to subscribe and be seen with it tucked in one’s bag is likely the iterative result of spending time in elite social milieus and expensive educational institutions that prize this publication and discuss its contents.”
— Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, The new, subtle ways the rich signal their wealth
Tagged: Wealth, Economic Signifiers, Conspicuous Consumption