In fad standard time, a day is a month, and a fad that lasts two months is a classic.
Most people think the Shakers are in Pennsylvania. They tend to confuse them with the Amish.
Fads are born to die.
Voting statistics for younger voters is pathetic.
America is just a cool place.
A fad is something that gives just a couple of minutes of extreme fun. It can be useful. It can be useless.
Shaker pieces were not to show off. One was not to waste energy to decorate.
I've done strategic planning, all kind of cash flows, but in fad marketing, it is all really irrelevant. It is marketing by total gut feeling. There is no market research. You either sell 500 of something, and it is a total bomb, or you sell 500 million.
I think what you inherit is not real. I haven't inherited anything. What I have is really mine because I made it myself.
Everyone underestimates the maturity of kids.
The product of stickers will be around for a long time, but how it gets to the consumer will change.
Opportunity just exists in the air for a few minutes. If you don't obey your gut feeling right away, you've lost your chance.
When I was a boy, my father used to criticize me for - it's hard to translate - I guess you could say 'mindless time.' Thinking what to do. I need to be bored so I can be pushed into doing something.
In Japan, the more expensive a restaurant is, the larger the plates and the smaller the portions. The cheaper a restaurant is, the smaller the plates and the larger the portions.
It was very enticing to become a yuppie, but I didn't want to do that.
I like things that don't go together.
There are conventions for people with serious, boring inventions, but fad inventors need help. You need someone to talk to. You just can't tell your friends you're going to invent a pet rock and mortgage your house to pay for it. It's embarrassing... risky mentally. Your friends think you're crazy.
I've become obsessed with preserving Shaker furniture. I feel as though every influence in my life, everything I've learned and know, all the money I've made, has come together to take care of it.
I don't need a big K Street office or a British secretary or a facade for my ego.
Anything I do, I do fanatically.
