Dick Clark Quotes

When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.

I'm always the last person in the world who would ever try to predict a trend.

And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.

I pick up on styles, way before they get popular, pretty much before young kids do. I see 'em coming.

I don't go looking for new fads.

The beauty and the fashion industry want to control you. And the way that they do it through your body. So once they control your body they control your purse and the products you buy. Its a fantastic strategy and it's working.

When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.

Sneakers have become a significant category for us and a very tangible reminder that what our customers want and wear is changing.

We have to talk a little trash to sell fights, talk more, because we know we will profit more from that. It's important.

Ironically, fashion trends, be it denim or polka dots, have a tendency to perpetuate the contrary.

We always trend set.

Targeted marketing has existed for as long as there's been marketing.

I don't want to be the Pied Piper of fast food.

A lot of people make fashion their whole life, which I think is not cool.

If you give people something they want, they'll come and see it.

A celebrity can gain attention in our otherwise busy lives. And celebrity sells.

Let's face it - negativity sells records.

Yeah, I grew a goatee, and the next year, everybody had them.

Most of the time they buy what other people buy. They move in great schools, like bluefish, all identical. There is safety in numbers. If one wants Schnabel, they all want Schnabel, if one buys a Keith Haring, two hundred Keith Harings will be sold.

If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.

There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them.

‎What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response of a hive mind to its own reflection? In a 21st-century society wired into instantaneous networks, marketing is the mirror; the collective consumer is the chameleon.

Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.

Mass marketing means appealing to the masses which means appealing to the average.