Consumers Quotes

• The lady ... is not a producer; in most communities productive labor is by consent unladylike. On the other hand she is the heaviest of consumers, and theorists have not been wanting to maintain that the more she spends the better off society is.

  

  Emily James Smith Putnam
  • Society
  • Communities
  • Lady

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

  

  William Gibson
  • Information
  • Used
  • Currency

• Many innovations fail because consumers irrationally overvalue the old while companies irrationally overvalue the new.

  

  Nir Eyal
  • Old
  • Consumers
  • Overvalued

• There is now more pressure on consumers than there has ever been and it is not sustainable.

  

  Betty Furness
  • Pressure
  • Consumers

• The press is supposed to equip people to act as citizens and not just consumers of programming that happens to be news.

  

  David Folkenflik
  • People
  • Citizens
  • Programming

• Consumers no longer want only a great product - they want to buy products from companies that align with their own character and values.

  

  Muhtar Kent
  • Character
  • Company
  • Products

• There is also a concern that there is a lack of demand of oil. And so when commodity prices fall, it's good if you happen to be a consumer, but it's sometimes seen as symptom of a weakening economy.

  

  David Wessel
  • Sometimes
  • Economy
  • Commodity

• The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about The Dark Knight's dread (that teenage thrall with subversion) inspires their fealty to product.

  

  Armond White
  • Morality
  • Product
  • Consumers

• I think that the balance needs to be restored, and I would note that in the camp in which I am in, one finds libraries, universities, the Internet industry, the manufacturers of digital media, and consumers.

  

  Rick Boucher
  • Internet
  • Restored
  • Manufacturers

• I'm not interested in, you know, turning the clock back or pointing fingers, but I am interested in trying to figure out how we come together to chart a better way forward and one that will restore confidence in, you know, small and medium-size businesses and consumers and begin to chip away at the unemployment rate.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Consumers
  • Businesses
  • Unemployment rate

• I also think that if you want to put a price on carbon, why not just do it with a simple tax? Why not ask motorists to pay more, why not ask electricity consumers to pay more and then at the end of the year you can take your invoices to the tax office and get a rebate of the carbon tax you've paid.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Price
  • Carbon
  • Rebate

• Women are underserved and underestimated as consumers.

  

  Geraldine Laybourne
  • Women
  • Consumers
  • Underestimated

• Let's stand up for taxpayers, let's stand up for consumers, and let's stand up for small businesses, which create most of the jobs in America.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • America
  • Jobs
  • Taxpayers

• Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Government
  • Competition
  • Jobs

• Consumers, unlike voters, expect an immediate response to their concerns; and companies, unlike governments, do not have the luxury of a mid-term lull.

  

  Noreena Hertz
  • Government
  • Response
  • Consumers

• The consistent growth in overall revenues shows marketers may be shifting more of their total advertising budgets to online. This is a natural development as research shows more consumers are spending a larger percentage of their media time online, while the flow of advertising dollars follows.

  

  David Silverman
  • Growth
  • Development
  • Advertising

• I think increasingly consumers are judging the quality of their travel and hotel experiences by their ability to have access to basic technologies, including Wi-Fi.

  

  Gary Shapiro
  • Quality
  • Consumers
  • Technologies

• Diesel pioneered the idea of luxury denim, and we still drive this market. But it encompasses more: the consumers love the brand, the lifestyle, the mentality of Diesel.

  

  Renzo Rosso
  • Ideas
  • Lifestyle
  • Diesel

• When the trust is high, you get the trust dividend. Investors invest in brands people trust. Consumers buy more from companies they trust, they spend more with companies they trust, they recommend companies they trust, and they give companies they trust the benefit of the doubt when things go wrong.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Company
  • Benefits
  • Brands

• Those who wish to control their own lives and move beyond existence as mere clients and consumers - those people ride a bike.

  

  Wolfgang Sachs
  • People
  • Moving
  • Existence

• G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric.

  

  Erik Brynjolfsson
  • Should
  • Consumers
  • Welfare

• With interest rates artificially low, consumers reduce savings in favor of consumption, and entrepreneurs increase their rates of investment spending.

  

  Steve Hanke
  • Consumers
  • Consumption
  • Savings

• Building a smarter grid has long been a key part of our government's plan to modernize our energy infrastructure and provide clean, reliable affordable power to consumers. By supporting Ryerson's Centre for Urban Energy we are building a whole new landscape for innovations that will be the backbone for our energy system for future generations.

  

  Bob Chiarelli
  • Energy
  • Innovation
  • Building

• Ford is committed to improving fuel economy, and many consumers are anxious to do the same.

  

  Ann Wright
  • Economy
  • Consumers
  • Fuel

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