Quotes about Consumer

Consumer culture is contradiction in terms Votes: 3

Consumer electronics is a challenging one. Votes: 3

They Want You To Be A Docile Apathetic Consumer Votes: 3

Consumer habits are key to understanding how to launch a product. Votes: 3

Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine. Votes: 3

Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated. Votes: 3

The Ideal Consumer is someone who is constantly dissatisfies, constanly needs more and more products in order to feel better. Votes: 3

Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: "A right to not have your data rise up and attack you." Votes: 3

If President Barack Obama had not been in the White House, we would not have the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today. Votes: 3

Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency. Votes: 3

What do the Republicans say? Donald Trump? They say they're just going to roll back the Dodd-Frank regulations. They want to undermine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Votes: 3

Consumer groups fought hard to provide investor protections for special entities such as pension funds, schools, and municipalities who purchase swaps. No comparable protection exists in the futures market. Votes: 3

Consumer groups fought hard to provide investor protections for 'special entities' such as pension funds, schools, and municipalities who purchase swaps. No comparable protection exists in the futures market. Votes: 3

We do a lot of consumer research. Consumers believe the smartphone will be the remote, meaning that it will orchestrate a lot of things. So maybe you will take your connectivity with you to the car. Votes: 3

If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are subject to safety regulation; water pistols are, but not real guns. Votes: 3

One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I. Votes: 3

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall. Votes: 2

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich. Votes: 2

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. Votes: 2

We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art. Votes: 2

Exercise your purchasing power as a consumer, volunteer and bring joy to those in need, and share your experiences, tell your stories, and inspire others along the way. Votes: 2

If there's a choice between tap water and bottled water, the consumer can make that choice. In a very large geography in the world, that choice does not exist. Votes: 2

The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food. Votes: 2

The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need. Votes: 2

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. Votes: 2

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating. Votes: 2

Transparency, accountability and sustainability have become the slogans of the market leaders. Companies carry out environmental and social audits to court the consumer, and even the bluest chips woo organisations such as Greenpeace and Amnesty. Votes: 2

The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending. Votes: 2

We used to think that the enterprise was the hardest customer to satisfy, but we were wrong. It turns out, consumers are harder than the enterprise because the consumer will not give you a second chance. Votes: 2

When a company identifies how to integrate the processes needed to give the consumer a sense of job completion, it can blow away the competition. A product is easy to copy, but experiences are very hard to replicate. Votes: 2

Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I'm the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans. Votes: 2

Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before. Votes: 2

The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior. Votes: 2

I feel like maybe I'm part of that generation that became more of a gamer than a video consumer. It's always been something I've done with my spare time. If I had three hours on a Friday night, I'm not out partying. I'm probably playing video games. Votes: 2

When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides? Votes: 2

You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that's bad for everybody. Votes: 2

The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains. Votes: 2

When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification. Votes: 2

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof. Votes: 2

The model of getting the consumer to come to you is old, and the new model is how can you get to the consumer on their terms, in ways they want to engage in. How people are choosing to interface with content is very different. You've got to marry different platforms. Votes: 2

Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply. Votes: 2

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together. Votes: 2

The consumer is always right. Votes: 0

I am the self-consumer of my woes, Votes: 0

Escape is a consumer goods like another Votes: 0

Stop being a consumer, fight the power! Votes: 0

The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted. Votes: 0

I think of myself as just another consumer. Votes: 0

One God, one market, one truth, one consumer Votes: 0

Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer. Votes: 0

There is no substitute for an ecstatic consumer. Votes: 0

Copy is a direct conversation with the consumer. Votes: 0

Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer. Votes: 0

Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire. Votes: 0

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. Votes: 0

When you focus on the consumer, the consumer responds. Votes: 0

Legislators need to support privacy to establish consumer confidence. Votes: 0

$60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000 Votes: 0

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife. Votes: 0

The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. Votes: 0

Design is more important than technology in most consumer applications. Votes: 0

Ambient Devices develops a new generation of consumer electronic products. Votes: 0

The market system makes all producers responsible to the consumer. Votes: 0

Instead of gutting consumer protection, we should be expanding it. Votes: 0

Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes. Votes: 0

The market and the consumer and idea trump the system. Votes: 0

We're all subject to the daily pressures of consumer persuasion. Votes: 0

Traditional ads placed into digital just shout at the consumer Votes: 0

The consumer's side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious. Votes: 0

You're pregnant? Congratulations, the world needs another mindless, semiliterate consumer. Votes: 0

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something. Votes: 0

Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy Votes: 0

Content is the emotional and informational bridge between commerce and consumer. Votes: 0

Direct to consumer really gives you control of your business completely. Votes: 0

Clearly, Japan is a most important market for digital consumer products. Votes: 0

All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer. Votes: 0

The habits of the American consumer are changing; that's a reality. Votes: 0

The Chinese economy's still not that much of a consumer economy. Votes: 0

Maintaining the trust of the consumer is critical to our business Votes: 0

Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them. Votes: 0

The consumer is both culprit and victim of the confusion on quality. Votes: 0

Free trade or the free market means the sovereignty of the consumer. Votes: 0

I still consider myself a consumer of music more than anything else. Votes: 0

No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer. Votes: 0

The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile. Votes: 0

I think the big force is going to be consumer buying power. Votes: 0

And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows. Votes: 0

People enjoy our meat and our poultry, as I do as a consumer. Votes: 0

There is simply no way to sustain an economy based on consumer credit. Votes: 0

Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people. Votes: 0

I would not describe myself as a super early adopter of consumer technology. Votes: 0

Halloween will be a slam-dunk for merchants despite the weakening consumer spending trends. Votes: 0

Consolidating to the point of monopoly has never served the consumer - ever. Votes: 0

We need conscious entertainment that engage and influence its consumer to rational thinking. Votes: 0

The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer. Votes: 0

A brand is nothing but an expression of the consumer's loyalty and trust. Votes: 0

The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine Votes: 0

The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection. Votes: 0

Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods. Votes: 0

Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives. Votes: 0

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand. Votes: 0

Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer. Votes: 0

In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer... Votes: 0

It's not business to consumer, it's not business to business, it's people to people Votes: 0

All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer. Votes: 0

The main goal is not to complicate the already difficult life of the consumer. Votes: 0

A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer. Votes: 0

We remain unconvinced that consumer appetite for mobile TV services exists outside of niche segments. Votes: 0

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history. Votes: 0

Good first drafts and speedy responses to consumer dialog will always trump lawyered corporate speak. Votes: 0

I truly believe the American consumer doesn't want to buy products made under abusive conditions. Votes: 0

Making consumer choices that reward eco-friendly products and companies is a great way to start. Votes: 0

Every state's emblematic propaganda is worshiped by the consumer-citizen as a super-logo, a brand Juggernaut. Votes: 0

The smartest advertising is the advertising that communicates the best and respects the consumer's intelligence. Votes: 0

The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer. Votes: 0

No one has ever gone broke underestimating the insecurities of the gay and lesbian consumer. Votes: 0

The Department of Defense, the largest single energy consumer in America, is bullish on solar. Votes: 0

I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person. Votes: 0

All the social things the consumer has gotten used to are being applied to business. Votes: 0

I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning. Votes: 0

A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product. Votes: 0

A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer. Votes: 0

The primary driver of final consumer demand is, of course, the level of disposable income. Votes: 0

I'm all for consumer rights. I get very aggravated if I don't get a good service. Votes: 0

Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints. Votes: 0

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising. Votes: 0

For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy Votes: 0

I'm all for consumer rights. I get very aggravated if I don't get a good service. Votes: 0

Marketers and executives are very different from the average consumer, so your instincts may mislead you. Votes: 0

The less the consumer knows about what's happening before the meat hits the plate, the better. Votes: 0

Advertising is judged not by what it says, but by what the consumer thinks it says. Votes: 0

If the quality is there, the consumer will want it, buy it and pay for it. Votes: 0

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished. Votes: 0

If American industry continues to sow contempt for the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer. Votes: 0

Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending . . . when women do better, economies do better. Votes: 0

People really have to start being a smarter consumer, read labels, and understand what hidden sugars are. Votes: 0

Ther average consumer does not know the difference between the browser, the internet, and the search box. Votes: 0

The distinctions between advertising and marketing are blurring, requiring new roles and new forms of consumer-centric marketing. Votes: 0

The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods. Votes: 0

At the basic consumer level, the profusion of fonts appeals to a culture that celebrates expressive individualism. Votes: 0

For someone growing up in America now, there are few available alternatives to the cool consumer worldview." Votes: 0

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress Votes: 0

Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods. Votes: 0

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. Votes: 0

What has really changed in the industry is the consumer. The 'he' is now a 'she,' Votes: 0

A consumer is not a moron. She's your wife. Don't insult her intelligence, and don't shock her. Votes: 0

Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel. Votes: 0

What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last. Votes: 0

To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that's just beyond. It's a dream. Votes: 0

I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer. Votes: 0

With every decisions we make, the last question we ask is what does the consumer think of this. Votes: 0

Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices. Votes: 0

Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet. Votes: 0

The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply. Votes: 0

We all make mistakes, but when I made mistakes there was no filter between me and the consumer. Votes: 0

I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America... Votes: 0

The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel. Votes: 0

I have previously been a very enthusiastic consumer, and I didn't think about the origins of garments enough. Votes: 0

I think we have a great track record on being relevant, on identifying consumer trends, needs and wants. Votes: 0

To understand the mindset of the connected consumer, one must realize that everything begins with search and intent. Votes: 0

The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel Votes: 0

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society. Votes: 0

The technology is not only the way we change stories, but also changing the relationship to the consumer. Votes: 0

It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England. Votes: 0

You don't drive an economy by consuming - the consumer is not the engine, the consumer is the caboose. Votes: 0

I think that the consumer is generally unaware of certain material facts, particularly the tax risk and compensation issues. Votes: 0

I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us. Votes: 0

Well, I'm a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see. Votes: 0

People's attitudes have been changing over the past 15 years, but China is still the world's biggest consumer of dogs. Votes: 0

In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures Votes: 0

The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence. Votes: 0

Maybe we don't recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture. Votes: 0

Stop competing on price; compete on value. Deliver total consumer solutions, rather than just your piece of the solution. Votes: 0

The landscape for business isn’t changing because of social media, it’s changing because consumer expectations are evolving. Votes: 0

I'm very eclectic in terms of what I like, what I read, what I watch, my own consumer behavior. Votes: 0

We used to think that everything started in the lab. Now we realize that everything spins off the consumer. Votes: 0

Everywhere I've been working, I always had in mind the final destination of the clothes, which is the consumer. Votes: 0

Without a specific reason for the consumer to behave, without a reward or benefit, the overwhelmed consumer will refuse. Votes: 0

You can keep 'consumer' DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier. Votes: 0

if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say. Votes: 0

For a long time, companies ignored the fact that 80 percent of sporting goods are sold to the casual consumer. Votes: 0

Terrain has seen a strong uptick in brand awareness and direct-to-consumer traffic from their inclusion in the Anthropologie Group. Votes: 0

I'm willing to submit to the sovereignty of the consumer, but I just want to know what they say. Votes: 0

As consumer adoption of wireless devices continues to soar, Wi-Fi congestion is becoming a critical problem for consumers and innovators. Votes: 0

Within neoliberal narratives, youth are mostly defined as a consumer market, a drain on the economy, or stand for trouble. Votes: 0

Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer. Votes: 0

If pornographers can hook adolescents when their hormones are raging, they know they'll have an ongoing consumer base for life. Votes: 0

I'm saying there's plenty of money out there for great consumer entrepreneurs with great consumer products attacking really big markets. Votes: 0

Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for. Votes: 0

The Japanese, implementing a complex, long-term, and ultimately successful strategy to dominate the U S consumer-electronics market, attacked Pearl Harbor. Votes: 0

Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and to extend that monopoly and undermine consumer choice. Votes: 0

Our primary goal in the consumer health service companies I back is helping them create an uncompromisingly great consumer experience. Votes: 0

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer. Votes: 0

What the Ten Million Solar Roofs Act does is provide consumer rebates for the purchase and installation of solar systems. Votes: 0

One way to sell a consumer something in the future is simply to get his or her permission in advance. Votes: 0

The industry must adhere to certain consumer protection norms if the Internet is to remain an open platform for innovation. Votes: 0

Before long it will be the animals who do the dieting so that the ultimate consumer does not have to. Votes: 0

The glue that kept the consumer market together the last few years was the wealth effect from the housing boom. Votes: 0

If the milk industry can make their product seem sexy and increase consumer demand, there must be hope for music. Votes: 0

Even if consumer confidence hit rock bottom, that most likely would not be enough, by itself, to cause a depression. Votes: 0

Unless we change direction, models show that the profit of the entire consumer goods sector could be wiped out by 2050 Votes: 0

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off. Votes: 0

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer. Votes: 0

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. Votes: 0

Going to radio with a rap record prior to going to the consumer is like having no foreplay with your girlfriend. Votes: 0

In e-commerce, your prices have to be better because the consumer has to take a leap of faith in your product. Votes: 0

What should a brand leader advertise?Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior. Votes: 0

the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags. Votes: 0

We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop. Votes: 0

Most of the major consumer-goods companies roll out their marketing programs in the I-4 corridor. It reflects what America looks like. Votes: 0

In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long. Votes: 0

We should assume that the end product can be switched off by any consumer who is offended or frightened by it. Votes: 0

This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy. Votes: 0

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. Votes: 0

There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. Votes: 0

Health innovation, enabled by digital technologies to build big consumer service brands, is an incredibly interesting, complex problem to work on. Votes: 0

As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you. Votes: 0

It is not economic development; it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas Votes: 0

When families can afford the basics, they can reinvest in their communities, and higher wages means a broader consumer base for businesses. Votes: 0

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism. Votes: 0

A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is - it is what consumers tell each other it is. Votes: 0

The collection under my name is an exciting opportunity to really express my own aesthetic and connect with a very different consumer. Votes: 0

It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it. Votes: 0

Mass production keeps the world divided between consumer and producer. Demassification of production may hasten the speed towards an era of prosumers. Votes: 0

What advertisers call brand loyalty is merely the consumer's defense against the need to waste energy differentiating among things that barely differ. Votes: 0

Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending. Votes: 0

While consumer social like Facebook and Twitter gets the headlines, perhaps the greatest untapped potential for social networking lies in business applications. Votes: 0

In projecting the future, I think Apple did a good job of figuring out when the technology was ready to be consumer-grade. Votes: 0

If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer's not going to take notice. Votes: 0

Now that I'm more middle class, I have access to consumer goods. I do enjoy feminine frippery, feminine doo-da, stuff like that. Votes: 0

Aiming at giving our kids a competitive edge in a consumer society - that, in principle, is a goal that is limitless. Votes: 0

I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things. Votes: 0

As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy. Votes: 0

Clearly in the eyes of the consumer; the brand has not been diluted, but we must guard against that happening at all costs. Votes: 0

Where is the pricing system that offers the consumer a fair choice between air to breathe and motor cars to drive about in? Votes: 0

When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research, Votes: 0

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps. Votes: 0

When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research. Votes: 0

Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks. Votes: 0

[The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is directed. Votes: 0

People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods. Votes: 0

Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it. Votes: 0

The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery. Votes: 0

Yahoo is positioned for accelerated financial growth. We have a powerful consumer brand, a huge global audience, and a highly profitable operating model. Votes: 0

The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong. Votes: 0

Ironically, one of the clearer threats to consumer privacy is the government's largely unchecked ability to collect your sensitive information without due process. Votes: 0

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure. Votes: 0

Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race. Votes: 0

You get more irrationality within the family and in consumer behavior than you get, say, in the behavior of firms in their purchases. Votes: 0

Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be. Votes: 0

I'd much rather have the consumer buy a Wii, some accessories, and a ton of games, vs. buying any of my competitor's products. Votes: 0

As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy. Votes: 0

Since the beginning, HTC has focused on developing strong research and development capabilities and keeping a close eye on consumer, market and technology trends. Votes: 0

Haier, a Chinese brand, exemplifies the trend of emerging market companies building brands that are being accepted, if not recognized, by the Western consumer. Votes: 0

Only in situations where competition is illegal will competition not act naturally to bring the best product at the lowest price to the consumer. Votes: 0

We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information. Votes: 0

The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology. Votes: 0

Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data it collected. Votes: 0

Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA." Votes: 0

Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA. Votes: 0

Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation's global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures. Votes: 0

In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade. Votes: 0

Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of. Votes: 0

[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer. Votes: 0

You have to make the shift from being a consumer in the economy to becoming an owner-and you do it by becoming an investor. Votes: 0

Corruption is another tax on the consumer and it is the Maltese families who are forking the money to make up for such corruptions. Votes: 0

America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy - and how we buy it - we'll change who we are. Votes: 0

The actual division of labor must be reflected in the division of the rewards (and prices, which is the way the consumer gets rewarded). Votes: 0

The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer. Votes: 0

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake. Votes: 0

When a consumer derives value - especially from something that was given to him for free - he becomes the best kind of evangelist. Votes: 0

The consumer gets the best deal when the product is cheapest, and the product is cheapest when people can freely compete in the market place. Votes: 0

Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles. Votes: 0

Opponents of health care reform would take away consumer protections - siding with the insurance industry instead of the middle class. We can't afford that. Votes: 0

I'm a great admirer, fan and consumer of television. I love serial drama. I have been a major fan of HBO's series for many years. Votes: 0

Perfect competition' is considered both the ideal and the default state in Economics 101. So-called perfectly competitive markets achieve equilibrium when producer supply meets consumer demand. Votes: 0

Beats is inherently different: the company is a consumer electronics company but also a media company; a packaged goods company but also an entertainment company. Votes: 0

If you're just going to meet consumer or clients' demands, you might as well be a plumber - the work will be more frequently available. Votes: 0

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion. Votes: 0

Given the consumer-pleasing politics of today's universities, I have, in effect, seventy new bosses each semester; they're sitting at the desk in front of me. Votes: 0

Size of industry, concentration of market, or production notwithstanding, the consumer is best served when the businessman is completely free to pursue his profit goals. Votes: 0

In 2008, when the global financial crisis struck, it was a bad year for a lot of developing countries, and it manifested itself in consumer confidence. Votes: 0

[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo. Votes: 0

With all this consumer debt, business debt, government debt, smaller movements in interest rates have a magnified effect. a small movement can tip the boat. Votes: 0

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk. Votes: 0

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star. Votes: 0

Companies that make keys, credit card companies, any company in the service business - anything to do with a consumer is probably a software company. Votes: 0

The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Votes: 0

Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled into buying almost anything that might remedy their parental deficiencies. Votes: 0

Univision's close-to-50-year relationship with Hispanics makes us one of the leading media brands in this country and the gateway to connect with this consumer. Votes: 0

The value of an item"”in the mind of a consumer"”is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag. Votes: 0

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes. Votes: 0

Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand. Votes: 0

The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market for almost no profit. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, in the environment, I don't see as much willingness to invest heavily in R&D as I do in consumer technology. And that's a pity. Votes: 0

E-books, which made their debut in the 1990s, cut costs even more for both consumer and producer, though as the Internet expanded, those roles became confused. Votes: 0

Instead of investing in the goods as they pass between producer and consumer, as the merchant does, the businessman now invests in the processes of industry. Votes: 0

The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment. Votes: 0

I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft. Votes: 0

If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector Votes: 0

We need to get insurance out of the way and let the consumer interact with their doctor the way they did basically before World War II, Votes: 0

You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action. Votes: 0

there are now unmistakeable signs of a trend in favor of superior products at premium prices. The consumer is not a moron, she is your wife. Votes: 0

Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won. Votes: 0

But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer. Votes: 0

I agree with people who say we want more income equality; we want more consumer protection; and we want sounder banks. I agree with all that. Votes: 0

The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales tax revenues from that Votes: 0

The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it. Votes: 0

The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need -- we're done for. Votes: 0

The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make room in his soul. Votes: 0

I knew a lot about product design before coming to Apple, but I didn't understand a lot about consumer experience design, which is really Apple's forte. Votes: 0

The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that. Votes: 0

Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be background noise. Votes: 0

As a business leader you have to ask yourself, Am I creating a consumer environment that is conducive to loyalty?If the answer is no, FIX IT! Votes: 0

The responsiveness of a firm to the consumer is directly proportionate to the distance on the organization chart from the consumer to the chairman of the board. Votes: 0

A brand is the set of expectations, memories, stores and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer's decision to choose one product or service over another. Votes: 0

Make your company stock a consumer product. When consumers buy stock in your company, they'll never buy a competitive product. You've linked their financial future to yours. Votes: 0

I am concerned about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don't want to use the economy, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse. Votes: 0

Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity Votes: 0

Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches the television. Votes: 0

The value of an item - in the mind of a consumer - is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag. Votes: 0

I imagine a certain amount of consumer impulse will be replaced by community connection. You can already see it starting with things like the local food movement. Votes: 0

The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world. Votes: 0

We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them. Votes: 0

Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of a nouveau post-human, consumer hedonism. Votes: 0

Healthcare has been the last major industry that hasn't been touched by technology in terms of productivity and consumer adoption in the way so many other industries have. Votes: 0

I am a huge consumer of social networks, and I utilize Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I'm interested and am learning more about Tumblr and other visually dominant sites. Votes: 0

the bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a stale one will give him pain. Votes: 0

I am much more optimistic about consumer-driven change than I am governmental change. Anything can happen in government, but I do think we consumers can drive true change. Votes: 0

Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking. Votes: 0

Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking. Votes: 0

The evolving social and digital media platforms and highly innovative and relevant payment capabilities are causing seismic changes in consumer behavior and creating equally disruptive opportunities for business. Votes: 0

Food and energy account for a significant portion of household budgets, so the Federal Reserve's inflation objective is defined in terms of the overall change in consumer prices. Votes: 0

The consumer is getting fed up with shoddy material, poor quality, unsafe products, bad service, weak warranties, lack of adequate information -- the whole gamut of such problems. Votes: 0

Recent research suggests that New Deal programs may actually have had their primary impact on the economy by influencing consumer and business expectations of future growth and inflation. Votes: 0

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement. Votes: 0

The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment. Votes: 0

The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment Votes: 0

You can't change the world, but you can change yourself. That adage suits consumer capitalism perfectly, since the illusion of changing ourselves is a successfully maintained through shopping. Votes: 0

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up. Votes: 0

Security was the demand which set in motion labour movements in history; trade unions, friendly societies, consumer cooperatives were all about compensating for the impotence of individual resistance. Votes: 0

The world is changing.... I don't, as a consumer, want advertising that's not relevant. If we're going to take a side let's take the side of the consumer, Votes: 0

The consumer, so it is said, is the king each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done. Votes: 0

The world is changing... I don't, as a consumer, want advertising that's not relevant. If we're going to take a side, let's take the side of the consumer. Votes: 0

Nothing has value in itself. The consumer confers value on it by seeking to acquire it. Hence, the value of a thing is never objective, but always subjective. Votes: 0

Laugh until you cry;never let your eyes look dryThis is not a matter of joke;this is all to provokeour sense of humourLife is its own consumer! Votes: 0

I feel quite unable to adopt the opinion that the moment goods pass into the possession of the consumer they cease altogether to have the attributes of capital. Votes: 0

Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day. Votes: 0

Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year. Votes: 0

I think with every successful consumer Internet business, there will be lawyers that are interested in going after your company, especially when they think that there's a financial incentive. Votes: 0

A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price in the home market. Votes: 0

But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits. Votes: 0

The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these. Votes: 0

Generally, traditional businesses were slow to recognize the way in which legalized gambling captured dollars from across the entire spectrum of the various consumer markets, but now they know Votes: 0

I love getting consumer reports. I think it's one of my favourite things, studying what people have to say about the product and then trying to make it better. Votes: 0

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life Votes: 0

What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material - objectified - traces of consumer choices. Votes: 0

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life. Votes: 0

When you see most companies get big, they want to shout about all they've done. But the consumer wants to know: 'What have you done for me lately?' Votes: 0

In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating." Votes: 0

If theres a choice between tap water and bottled water, the consumer can make that choice. In a very large geography in the world, that choice does not exist. Votes: 0

In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating. Votes: 0

Content has always driven the business. Now it's no longer the queen to a king of distribution; it is the king, king, king, because the consumer has complete choice. Votes: 0

I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in the view of the consumer. Votes: 0

What is urgently needed is a bold new move from a consumer economy to a conserver economy in all of the developed countries, and particularly in the United States. Votes: 0

When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience. Votes: 0

High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel. Votes: 0

Caterham realises corporate America and the American consumer market... is the largest consumer market in the world and it is something that needs to be part of Formula One. Votes: 0

All object printed: Love me. Look me. Million speaking objects,begging. Crown American consumer with power of king, to rescue choose and give home or abandon here for expire. Votes: 0

The Stock Market was down today. Two major businesses declared bankruptcy, consumer spending is at an all time low - in other words, Bush is back on the job. Votes: 0

Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself. Votes: 0

A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're making, don't make it. Votes: 0

At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible. Votes: 0

A business exists because the consumer is willing to pay you his money. You run a business to satisfy the consumer. That isn't marketing. That goes way beyond marketing. Votes: 0

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard. Votes: 0

There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. that's true of all types of consumer electronics. Votes: 0

The problem with the auto industry is layered upon the lack of consumer confidence. People are not buying cars. I don't care whether they're or American cars, or international cars. Votes: 0

We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index. Votes: 0

I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better. Votes: 0

People need things. I don't live a monk's existence, I'm a consumer, but I try to do it to the level that doesn't feel like there's an overabundance of something. Votes: 0

Good design is thorough down to the last detail - Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the consumer. Votes: 0

We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index. Votes: 0

Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S. Votes: 0

If, as I suspect, the American consumer now enters a sustained slowdown, there will be unmistakable reverberations on U.S.-centric export flows in many major regions of the world. Votes: 0

If you send it halfway around the world before it is eaten, an organic food still may be 'good' for the consumer, but is it 'good' for the food system? Votes: 0

I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave objects. Votes: 0

As we've focused more on our food and where it comes from, people now have greater awareness of what's being put onto our food, pesticides, labeling issues, and consumer health. Votes: 0

The cable industry has risen to new heights in their apparent willingness and ability to gouge the American consumer. Cable rates [have] increased an unbelievable five-and-a-half times faster than inflation. Votes: 0

Being in the consumer business helps us groom talent in areas like marketing, finance and logistics. We can benchmark our outsourcing business to our consumer business and its best practices. Votes: 0

Yahoo is still in many ways the definitive brand of the consumer Internet, but I don't think they can or should compete with Google any longer. That game is over. Votes: 0

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in. Votes: 0

Miniaturization of electronics started by NASA's push became an entire consumer products industry. Now we're carrying the complete works of Beethoven on a lapel pin listening to it in headphones. Votes: 0

The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life. Votes: 0

Health care's like any other product or service: if the consumer is in charge of spending his money on it, then the market will make sure that it is affordable. Votes: 0

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology. Votes: 0

The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer. Votes: 0

China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world. Votes: 0

The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client. Votes: 0

On top of opportunities in further traffic growth, there are increasing opportunities to fully realize the potential of the online video ecosystem, as China continues to evolve into a consumer-driven economy. Votes: 0

Even today you can look through almost any consumer or professional publication and find headlines that possess not a single one of the necessary qualities, such as self-interest, news, or curiosity. Votes: 0

It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life. Votes: 0

Cigarette companies market heavily to young people. They need young customers because their product kills the older ones. It is the only product that, if used as intended, kills the consumer. Votes: 0

The power of consumer goods . . . has been engendered by the so-called liberal and progressive demands of freedom, and, by appropriating them, has emptied them of their meaning, and changed their nature. Votes: 0

China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world. Votes: 0

Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil's tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices for the American consumer. Votes: 0

On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers. Votes: 0

Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing. Votes: 0

We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer. Votes: 0

Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass- a consumer's race with donkeys chasing an electric carrot. Votes: 0

It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer-what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go. Votes: 0

I tried to put direct to consumer through a wholesales channel - the industry was just not ready to adapt and change. The other issue I had was with Jimmy Choo. Votes: 0

The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself. Votes: 0

I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed. Votes: 0

Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase. Votes: 0

What we get to think and know about the world is in the hands of a very few... A truly informed public is antithetical to the interests of modern consumer capital. Votes: 0

If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America. Votes: 0

Medical tourism can be considered a kind of import: instead of the product coming to the consumer, as it does with cars or sneakers, the consumer is going to the product. Votes: 0

The consumer game is tougher than pro football and more conniving than chess. One side [industry] invents the rules and the other side [consumers] is left to guess what they are. Votes: 0

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one. Votes: 0

I don't really like to talk specifically about customers by name - but we work with nearly all the leading manufacturers of consumer products worldwide and at quite a detailed engineering level. Votes: 0

It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live up to the Plimptonian legacy, I am humble and proud. Votes: 0

With the right sources of funding and some smart, strategic thinking about how to force non-banks to follow the same rules as other lenders, the entire landscape of consumer lending would change. Votes: 0

I'm part of the consumer culture. I was part of the baby boom generation. I have a car when I shouldn't, a couple of computers; I can't be anti-consumerist in that sense. Votes: 0

It would be much more consumer friendly for them to beep you when you swipe your card that says, uh-oh you're over your limit, are you sure you want to use that? Votes: 0

People will spend a tremendous amount of money in casinos, money they normally would spend on refrigerators or a new car. Local businesses will suffer because they'll lose consumer dollars to casinos. Votes: 0

Today's consumer is less interested in possessing things and more in experiencing them. That's something the music industry needs to get its head around. Do we even need record companies any more? Votes: 0

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer. Votes: 0

Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you're good, you'll reset that expectation again Votes: 0

We need a government which, yes, guarantees basic standards in public services, but which also steps in to protect people's wellbeing as they take part in our consumer democracy - particularly online. Votes: 0

I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I always want to feel like I can find that world. Votes: 0

At Revolution Health Group we will put consumers back at the center of the system by giving them more choice, control and convenience.. while building the first comprehensive, consumer-driven health care company. Votes: 0

I think we all realize the consumer has taken control, and they're not giving it back. So as every new technology comes forward, we have to figure out how to integrate it. Votes: 0

Thus, the isolated interference with one or a few prices of consumer goods always bring about effects-and this is important to realize-which are even less satisfactory than the conditions that prevailed before. Votes: 0

I hope we will never again see such a depression. But I am troubled by the huge consumer installment debt which hangs over the people of the nation, including our own people. Votes: 0

There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years. Votes: 0

We do not have to get rid of consumer-capitalist society before we can begin to build the new way. The way to replace the old system is to ignore it to death. Votes: 0

All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives. Votes: 0

I started to grow microbial cellulose to explore an ecofriendly textile for clothing and accessories but, very quickly, I realized this method had potential for all sorts of other biodegradable consumer products. Votes: 0

The crisis in Europe has affected the U.S. economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence, and pressuring U.S. financial markets and institutions. Votes: 0

The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated. Votes: 0

I'm not a great consumer. I always ask myself, 'Do I really need that piece?' I have friends who have 300 pairs of shoes; how would you leave the house in the morning? Votes: 0

More and more products are coming out in fiercely protective packaging designed to prevent consumers from consuming them. These days you have to open almost every consumer item by gnawing on the packaging. Votes: 0

Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out! Votes: 0

Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws. Votes: 0

People don't get a chance to think, "Why am I a consumer?" Because the decisions come at them so fast and furiously, they're not [even] given time to think, I am a consumer. Votes: 0

I also believe that it's the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food systems. And I believe that the consumer should have strong confidence in our food systems. Votes: 0

It is easier to disrupt consumer finance. It is much harder to disrupt institutional finance, Wall Street. It is very heavily regulated, and because it is institutional finance, you are dealing with incumbents. Votes: 0

As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture. Votes: 0

As the consumer is the public general, without distinction of rank or fortune, the free market is the most obvious expression of the sovereignty of the people and the best guarantee of democracy. Votes: 0

As a consumer of entertainment, as a director, I'm always interested in questions of identity and who someone is and how they're perceived and who they are versus who they thought they'd be. Votes: 0

[The theory of the firm] is exactly analogous to the analysis of the reactions of a consumer by means of indifferent curves. Indeed, a consumer is merely a 'firm' whose product is 'utility'. Votes: 0

The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods. Votes: 0

The more people there are, the more food we need, the more space we occupy, the more resources and consumer goods we wish to have and the more development has to take place Votes: 0

Any mechanism that will ensure benefits to consumer, any mechanism that will ensure that we do not waste food grains, any mechanism that helps the poorest of the poor is a welcome step. Votes: 0

Liberalism, the dominant ideology of our time, has been dangerously distorted by the impact of economism. It is that impact which has knocked the citizen off his pedestal and replaced him with the consumer. Votes: 0

Locally produced foods - defined as those harvested within a 100-mile radius of one's home - have a lesser impact on the environment because of the decreased need for transportation from source to consumer. Votes: 0

The question is how do you do it [more consumer protection] so that it actually works that way? And that takes analysis, and sometimes collaboration between government and business, to understand how that works. Votes: 0

I don't mean to make a big deal out of sobriety, by the way. Of all the modes of human consciousness available to the modern consumer I consider it to be the most overrated. Votes: 0

Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like. Votes: 0

Europe is a strong market for the U.S. If it has problems, if there's a lack of consumer confidence, if there's a deeper recession, this will deeply affect jobs in the U.S. Votes: 0

Daft Punk and I belong to the Generation 75. We were born in 1975, so we are somewhat in the middle of the rebellion and freedom of the 70s and the consumer culture of the 80s. Votes: 0

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to. Votes: 0

I don't want to write the thing that I am a consumer of when I'm unconscious. I want to write the thing that makes me contend with the thing that I've been consuming unconsciously. Votes: 0

In theory, it makes a lot of sense to combine the two operations, especially on the back end. But merging the two actual portal consumer experiences into a unified site will be a nightmare. Votes: 0

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market. Votes: 0

Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now. Votes: 0

in television the product is not the program; the product is the audience and the consumer of that product is the advertiser. The advertiser does not 'buy' a news program. He buys an audience. Votes: 0

Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer. Votes: 0

I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer who is getting clobbered by these gasoline and oil prices. Votes: 0

Steve Jobs was the greatest manufacturer of consumer products of his age. His marketing vision put him on par with Henry Ford, and his grasp of the aesthetic component to industrial design far surpassed Ford's. Votes: 0

Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you're an owner. Faith is at its best when it's that way too. It's best lived when it's owned. Votes: 0

Why do eight out of ten new consumer products fail? Sometimes because they are too new. The first cold cereals were rejected by consumers. More often new products fail because they are not new enough. Votes: 0

Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers. Votes: 0

To get into the consumer's mind, you have to sacrifice. You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute. An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category. Votes: 0

I like cars that are ahead of their times, and that were noble failures because they were built to a higher standard than the consumer needed. Cars like the Wills Sainte Claire or the Duesenberg. Votes: 0

All the action, in semiconductors at the present time is in the new consumer applications, and that's where we have focused our activities since we started doing our own products in the late '90s. Votes: 0

When you have a lot of construction going on, it sends a message of vitality that builds up consumer confidence. It gets people to spend money when they see that energy, that things are happening. Votes: 0

I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory. Votes: 0

Every time a consumer walks into a retail store, experiences the Nokia experience for the first time and purchases that product. Those are the moments where you say, 'We've hit it. We've nailed it.' Votes: 0

The question of trademark is pretty unsettled in the open source world. The trademark is important in a consumer product, but there are a few groups who feel it's a restriction they can't live with. Votes: 0

Google is a consumer brand and people need to be comfortable. If we were just an advertising brand we wouldn't have the same concerns. We've always tried to promote transparency and choice among our users. Votes: 0

John D. Rockefeller was certainly the first to create a consumer product that was sold literally throughout the entire world. Those blue 5-gallon cans showed up in some of the remotest parts of the world. Votes: 0

I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world. Votes: 0

If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports. Votes: 0

One of many challenges is of course to create a legal basis for copyright issues that's up to date with both modern distribution, consumer behavior and the rights and needs of creators and copyright holders. Votes: 0