Millennials can be very hardworking, but it’s easier to tell the story of the ones who are entitled.
Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let’s hope so.
When another editorial pops up denouncing millennials for some perceived generational flaw, I take it with a Miley Cyrus-sized grain of salt.
Not all Millennials think alike. A demographic is not a psychographic.
My experience is authenticity and honesty always works best with people my age and younger, and even older. Millennials specifically really respond to keeping it real about your opinions.
I think Millennials are more progressive, more socially progressive, much more concerned about economic issues that impact the poor and middle class, and so that basically shows me that the Democratic party will have a bright future.
Amazon and Snap both have stories that are compelling for many investors: Amazon has transformed retailing and is destined to dominate it. Snap is reinventing communication, at least for millennials and those even younger.
Everyone knows how hard it can be to market to millennials.
Millennials, as others, want creative, durable, desirable, and beautiful products. But they do add a new criteria: respect.
Global affairs consultant Ian Bremmer, founder of the Eurasia Group, has started a newsletter called ‘Signal,’ aimed at millennials. For years, Bremmer has written a maddeningly all-lowercase yet fascinating weekly newsletter on geopolitics.
Millennials are not deeply familiar with school choice, and have some reservations, especially about the types of institutions that a student might choose to attend with taxpayer dollars.
I want our millennials and our young people to do what they started out doing with meet-ups, to talk about what is going on, and spread the education.
The reality is that the economic situation for millennials is not a good one.
My Millennials, ‘stay woke’.
Representation is so important for all of us, especially millennials and the next generation.
It’s a widely-held belief that Millennials are obsessed with money. And it’s also wildly true. Just don’t mistake it for a fixation with getting rich.
An important part of my job is listening to diverse points of view at all levels – from Millennials starting their careers… to women at the highest levels of leadership… to my own wife and daughter.
Since I started Turning Point U.S.A., almost all millennials are off the college campuses, where the organization and I continue to focus much of our efforts.
Millennials are more aware of society’s many challenges than previous generations and less willing to accept maximizing shareholder value as a sufficient goal for their work. They are looking for a broader social purpose and want to work somewhere that has such a purpose.
All those articles that scold Millennials for their supposed entitlement? Forget them. Millennials are great employees.
Hillary Clinton and her media machine try to dismiss, but anybody who understands anything about how email works – and this is millennials in particular, who grew up on the Internet – know that you’re an idiot to keep sensitive information on a server in your house.
We cannot solve the STEM gender gap without solving it for millennials. They’re our first digital natives, and they’re willing to learn quickly.
Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I’ve been privileged to meet and work with.
Millennials don’t go to rallies.
We looked at the customer segment that we want to go after, the Millennials, which everybody wants to go after. They are not buying linear TV.
There is a possibility of fresh talent coming to work for the government. Millennials are the most public-spirited generation since the 1960s. There is an opportunity to harness that generation and make government service cool again.
A lot of the language about Millennials is extremely gendered.
Millennials are a bit more free-spirited, more able to go into new places, to feel more assertive and fearless about trying new things.
Millennials don’t believe that government is the most effective in solving problems, and that lack of faith in big government is an opportunity for Republicans to win over millennials.
Like many of my fellow millennials, I do not consider myself categorically Republican or Democrat. More than party affiliation, I vote on based on what I believe is right, for my family and for my country. Sometimes it’s a tough choice.
Millennials don’t want to be bombarded by ads. But what is so interesting to me, though, is how willingly they accept native content. Or native advertising – it’s not even native content.
Millennials in particular get a lot of flack for their supposed entitlement and narcissism, but these evaluations have never matched my experience with hiring young people at Warby Parker.
Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream.
Millennials grew up realizing that they can get the job done without having to go to the office.
These Millennials are volunteering more; they’re smarter than ever.
If, as statistics suggest, millennials’ diets are more plant-based than ever, and we continue to bring up our kids to eat less or no meat, the future could be bright – the future could be vegan.
As the streaming wars escalate in 2020 with all these services, we have one of the largest live audiences of millennials who are watching a streaming program – so obviously, there’s a lot of synergy there.
I don’t want to be just a lifestyle guru for the millennials.
Millennials are the experiences generation.
In addition to encouraging failure, I would also encourage companies to broadly create a culture of innovation. That should mean more than just technology and invention; it should mean something millennials know well: Ingenuity.
The biggest companies in the world and brands have come to me to help sell their product to the younger generation. And I speak the language of millennials, and they respond to my content.
What I notice a lot about millennials is that they have agency over their sexuality.
For millennials especially, mobility has become a key factor in selecting a potential career path and in choosing an appropriate employer.
Often times, when we talk about improving our public schools, it is easy to come back to the question of money. Are schools basically fine, just underfunded? Millennials say no – more funding isn’t the cure-all for what ails our schools.
There’s a massive opportunity as more and more millennials and others in cities switch over from car ownership to transportation as a service. They are picking Lyft, and we want to stay focused on that big opportunity.
Why do you think millennials are so into food? It’s the way they relate to each other.
Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their ‘likes’ and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.
We are millennials, and we love complaining more than any other generation.
If you believe all the information out there about millennials you’d have to conclude we had multiple personalities.
One of the things I admire most about millennials is they celebrate individualism, and their singularity is encouraged. To be different is to be cool as opposed to weird.
For millennials, conducting business with a purpose that goes beyond making profits is critically important in determining the kind of company they want to work for – and the kind of company with whom they are willing to do business.
While I’m sure some millennials are concerned with the ethical issues involved in mining for diamonds, the main reason they steer clear of the gems is because, well, they’re a dumb investment.
A lot of the values of millennials are shared by all of our generations. Who doesn’t want purpose, feedback and balance?
The increasingly progressive messages in marketing campaigns are clearly a mercenary attempt to entice millennials: they are trying to be ‘woke.’
Millennials, and the generations that follow, are shaping technology. This generation has grown up with computing in the palm of their hands. They are more socially and globally connected through mobile Internet devices than any prior generation. And they don’t question; they just learn.
Millennials really don’t perceive hierarchies. They either don’t perceive them or don’t like them.
Millions of Millennials and Gen Zers were never exposed to the threats of the Soviet Union; they did not live through the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev; they do not remember the Mariel boatlift or the SALT treaties or the Cuban missile crisis.
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