Mike Ferguson (Michael A. "Mike" Ferguson) Quotes

The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.

Mike Ferguson

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• Impressive
• Technological

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• I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Economic
  • Policy
  • Republicans

• I don't know that I've ever bought anything online. I'm about 10 years behind the technological curve, I think.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Think
  • Know
  • Technological

• Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Competition
  • Consumers
  • Sell

• Every technological revolution takes about 50 years.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Revolution
  • Technological

• I enjoyed running at that pace, I tried to just hang on to Valentino.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Running
  • Pace
  • Hang

• As the ball comes down the pitch at such pace, it is a challenge just to keep going. But I'm working on it.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Challenge
  • Ball
  • Pitch

• A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

  

  Quintilian
  • Power
  • Training
  • Speech

• By keeping the Internet free of discriminatory taxes, we've encouraged companies and consumers to do their business in the electronic marketplace, ... Congress originally enacted the moratorium to prevent thousands of state and local taxing jurisdictions from using the Internet as a cash cow. Rather than slow down the Internet with a slew of new taxes, we ought to extend the moratorium to allow the Web to reach its full potential.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Business
  • Free
  • Taxes

• Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.

  

  Faith Popcorn
  • Stop
  • Consumers
  • Vengeance

• David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Thinking
  • Illusion
  • Technological

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

  

  Peter Schiff
  • Economy
  • Consumers
  • Consuming

• There is simply no way to sustain an economy based on consumer credit.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • Way
  • Economy
  • Credit

• But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Trying
  • Lost
  • Study

• You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Interesting
  • Impressive

• We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Thinking
  • Consumers
  • Conformist

• I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?

  

  William Howard Taft
  • World
  • Presidential
  • Glad

• No matter how big the number is, we are going to sell out, ... We are going to have some disappointment with retailers and consumers.

  

  J Allard
  • Disappointment
  • Consumers
  • Retailers

• 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.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Forget
  • Said
  • Advertising

• A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by one impulse, and moving in unison as though a constituent part of the mighty machine, is one of the most inspiring examples of directed force that the world knows. I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.

  

  Thomas Nelson Page
  • World
  • Action
  • Creation

• Upon the decease of my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in my own right, shall receive their freedom . . . . The Negroes thus bound, are (by their Masters or Mistresses) to be taught to read and write; and to be brought up to some useful occupation, agreeably to the Laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, providing for the support of Orphan and other poor Children. And I do hereby expressly forbid the Sale, or transportation out of the said Commonwealth, of any Slave I may die possessed of, under any pretence whatsoever.

  

  George Washington
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Support

• Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Work
  • Never
  • Moving On

• Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.

  

  Ian Allison
  • Sea
  • Conditions
  • Ice

• I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Life
  • Good
  • Road

• The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.

  

  Mike Ferguson
  • Consumers
  • Pace
  • Impressive