Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.
Michael Schudson

Don't follow trends, start trends.
Frank Capra

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.
Scott Cook

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.
Janice Dickinson

For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.
Meryl Streep

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack Kerouac

I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.
Dick Clark

I looked at the rap community like street kids wanting their own brand. But now I look at that period with the rappers in the 90s as a trend of the moment. What it taught me was never to follow a trend, because trends move on.
Tommy Hilfiger

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

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.
Ray Kurzweil

In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined.
Trofim Lysenko

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
C. L. R. James

It seems we're always in transition and that it's more about trends than it is about what's meaningful.
Marlee Matlin

My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!
Frank Capra

Phish has never had anything to do with any trends at all in America.
Jon Fishman

Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.
Alan Dundes

Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.
Ajay Devgan

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.
Gianni Versace

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.
Emily Greene Balch

The press Yazoo were receiving were focused on the voice, This obviously was about trends.
Alison Moyet