{"quotes":[{"text":"Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things. We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. 'We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like'. Where planned obsolescence leaves off, psychological obsolescence takes over. We are made to feel ashamed to wear clothes or drive cars until they are worn out. The mass media have convinced us that to be out of step with fashion is to be out of step with reality. It is time we awaken to the fact that conformity to a sick society is to be sick. Until we see how unbalanced our culture has become at this point, we will not be able to deal with the mammon spirit within ourselves nor will we desire Christian simplicity.","author":"Richard J. Foster","tags":["consumerism","god","jesus","marketplace","media","need","possessions","simplicity","want"],"id":125745,"author_id":"Richard+J.+Foster"},{"text":"All selling should spring from service.","author":"Rasheed Ogunlaru","tags":["authenticity","business","hard-sell","influences","marketing","marketing-techniques","marketplace","products","rasheed-ogunlaru","sales","service","softs-sell"],"id":192675,"author_id":"Rasheed+Ogunlaru"},{"text":"Kate faced the crowd. They were just eyes and teeth to her, just spit and voices. It was a moment, even, before they became people: a man with one blind eye, another whose neck was thick with lumps and weeping wounds of scrofula. The poorest of the market.At Kate's feet, Drina. Her scarf and shirt were torn open.","author":"Erin Bow","tags":["attack","courageous","friendship","loyalty","marketplace","mob","persecution","standing-your-ground","violence","witch-hunt"],"id":211528,"author_id":"Erin+Bow"},{"text":"This planet was a marketplace where evil tugged murderously at its chains. Its spies were everywhere. At windy corners where young girls with knowing children’s faces were selling flowers and matches, on the operating tables at the hospitals, in the slums, at railway stations, under viaducts.","author":"Paul Leppin","tags":["capitalism","evil","marketplace","money"],"id":224395,"author_id":"Paul+Leppin"},{"text":"Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ?","author":"Alex Morritt","tags":["athens","bankrupt","bankruptcy","black-hole","bonds","boom-and-bust","borrowing","borrowing-money","bust","capitalism","capitalism-and-schizophrenia","capitalismo","collapse","credit","credit-challenged","credit-restoration","credit-score","creditors","crises","crisis","crisis-of-capitalism","crisis-of-confidence","currencies","currency","current-affairs","current-events","current-situation","debt-crises","debt-inheritance","debts","default","default-position","demise","depression","depression","economic-collapse","economic-crisis","economic-depression","economics","economy-bankrupt","euro","europe","european-economic-area","european-union","exit","exit-strategy","fallout","finance","finances","financial-crisis","financial-markets","financial-worries","funding","fundraising","funds","greece","greek","greek-mythology","greek-myths","greek-tragedy","grexit","indebted","indebtedness","kidding","kidding-yourself","loans-for-bad-credit","loans-for-bad-credit-rating","marketplace","markets","national","national-debt","nationalism","noose","political-commentary","political-corruption","political-expediency","political-satire","problematic","problems-in-the-world","problems-of-today","problems","problems-with-society","running-away-from-problems","savings","transparency","transparency-or-the-lack-thereof","unravel","unravelling","yoke"],"id":342642,"author_id":"Alex+Morritt"},{"text":"Not having a specified launch plan and process is one of the biggest pitfalls in the technology market.","author":"Brian Lawley","tags":["marketplace","product-management","technological-market","technology"],"id":384220,"author_id":"Brian+Lawley"},{"text":"[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.","author":"Aristophanes","tags":["administration","attributes","barter","character","demagoguery","government","greed","human-voice","language","marketplace","nature","politicians","selfishness","voice"],"id":412344,"author_id":"Aristophanes"},{"text":"The marketplace is an institution that teaches self-advancement, private acquisition, and the domination of nature. Its way of thinking is incompatible with the round river. Ecological harmony is a nonmarket value that takes a collective will to achieve.","author":"Donald Worster","tags":["agriculture","capitalism","collectivism","domination-of-nature","ecological-history","ecology","environmental-history","free-market","history","market","marketplace","markets","nature-writing","private-property","river","rivers","wilderness"],"id":417918,"author_id":"Donald+Worster"},{"text":"Not having a recognised brand \u0026 trying to stand out in the market is like going to the market without any goods.","author":"Onyi Anyado","tags":["brand","branding","branding","business","business","entrepreneur","entrepreneur","entrepreneurship","entrepreneurship","innovation","leadership","leadership","leadership","marketplace","of-the-day","start-up","startup"],"id":429875,"author_id":"Onyi+Anyado"},{"text":"To discern profits only when it is within the ken of the market herd is not the acme of investing excellence.","author":"Amah Lambert","tags":["bandwagon","discernment","entrepreneurship","herding","investing","marketplace","markets","profits","the-art-of-investing"],"id":435685,"author_id":"Amah+Lambert"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}