Tim Jackson > Quotes

“People are persuaded to spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to create impressions that won't last, on people we don't care about.”
― Tim Jackson

“Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.”
― Tim Jackson

“The overriding aim of this book is to seek viable responses to the biggest dilemma of our times: reconciling our aspirations for the good life with the constraints of a finite planet.”
― Tim Jackson, Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet

“mark-down, which discounts the selling price to customers and, so long as demand is ‘elastic’, results in increased sales of the product line. However, this is an expensive method of selling products, as it reduces the profit achieved on the products. In fact mark-down is the single largest cost to a fashion retail business after the cost of the products themselves. It is worth remembering at this point that the main – and frequently only – source of income for a fashion retailer is the profit from the sales of its products. Less profit per garment means less income to pay its bills. Furthermore, this tactic is less effective when general trading conditions are poor, as the competition is usually doing the same thing. It is vital then that the fashion retailer knows what its customers want and are expecting. Problems in defining and then keeping up with changing customer needs and expectations are arguably the most important factor in successful selling. Large retail businesses like Marks & Spencer”
― Tim Jackson, Mastering Fashion Buying and Merchandising Management

“Willful submission to a sinful man has become an act of vulnerability for a woman.”
― Tim Jackson

“Schwartz suggests that our values are structured around these two distinct tensions (Figure 7.2) in our psychological make-up: between selfishness (self-enhancement, in Schwartz’s scheme) and altruism (self-transcendence) on the one hand, and between novelty (or openness to change) and tradition (or conservation) on the other.39”
― Tim Jackson, Prosperity without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow

“There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration,’ she writes in The Human Condition. And ‘whatever throws this cycle out of balance’, whether it’s misery and wretchedness or riches and great fortune, ‘ruins the elemental happiness that comes from being alive’.”
― Tim Jackson, Post Growth: Life after Capitalism