Quote by Marshall McLuhan
When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it a

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves. – Marshall McLuhan

Other quotes by Marshall McLuhan

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium – that is, of any extension of ourselves – result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. – Marshall McLuhan

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Technology
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Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. – Marshall McLuhan

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Shopping
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Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfuls. – Hilaire Belloc

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Everyone lives by selling something. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny. – Plutarch

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I like my money right where I can see it – hanging in my closet. – From the television show Sex and the City

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I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun. – Elliott Erwitt

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Customers overwhelmingly show appreciation for great service with their wallets. – Help Scout (www.helpscout.net), “75 Customer Service Facts, Quotes & Statist

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Business

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness. – Richard Eyre

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It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so. – Ernestine Rose

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Religion