Consumers Quotes

• What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to remain capitalists have to learn to dance to it.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Capitalism
  • Capitalist
  • Consumerism

• I don't think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if we focus our company on improving the lives of the world's citizens and come up with genuine sustainable solutions, we are more in synch with consumers and society and ultimately this will result in good shareholder returns.

  

  Paul Polman
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Solutions

• The slowdown in PC sales has been pretty well documented, and we're trying to give consumers a reason to buy.

  

  Brad Williams
  • Reason
  • Sales
  • Consumers

• Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result from the transformation of matter in form, location, or availability (intellectually or temporally). It is these transformations that create economic benefits valued by consumers, and whoever arranges such transformations contributes to the value of things, whether his hands actually come into contact with physical objects or not.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Values
  • Economic
  • Transformation

• If we can help an advertiser refine a message so it works for our consumers, we should be doing that, but at the same time, you never want to do it by confusing the customer about what the experience is. If we fail in that regard, we do our brand and our customers a disservice.

  

  Norman Pearlstine
  • Experience
  • Help
  • Message

• 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

• 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

• A major reason so many start-ups fail is the flawed assumption that if the product is good enough, consumers will find it, the Field of Dreams philosophy of Build it and they will come. Except a lot of times, they don’t. Founders can be overly optimistic when it comes to acquiring customers instead of better preparing for what is usually a time consuming and expensive aspect of growing a business.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Business
  • Philosophy
  • Field Of Dream

• Do whatever you want in the back room of pharmacies, but keep it away from consumers.

  

  Katherine Albrecht
  • Room
  • Consumers
  • Whatever

• The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful impetus for change.

  

  Simon Mainwaring
  • Change
  • Brands
  • Impetus

• 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

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

  

  Seth Godin
  • Future
  • Advance
  • Permission

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

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Government
  • Competition
  • Jobs

• While American taxes pay for much of the research and development that goes into creating the new, life-saving drugs, American consumers continue to subsidize the cost of the drugs for consumers across the world.

  

  Mike Simpson
  • American
  • Development
  • Research

• From the consumer point of view, there may be questions about whether you'll have to be an AOL subscriber to get Time magazine, ... That combination of media with the access is one through which you may be able to block access to your competitors' subscribers.

  

  Charlene Li
  • Able
  • Block
  • Combination

• Different groups are differentially vulnerable to advertising; and their vulnerability varies not so much with the character or quantity of advertisements as with the informational resources they can claim by age, education, station in life, and government guarantees of consumer protection.

  

  Michael Schudson
  • Character
  • Resources
  • Protection

• 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

• 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.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Action
  • Media
  • Creating

• So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story.

  

  Miguel de Icaza
  • Enterprise
  • Application
  • Editing

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

  

  Betty Furness
  • Pressure
  • Consumers

• 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.

  

  Mindy Grossman
  • People
  • Models
  • Platforms

• My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.

  

  Evan Davis
  • Instinct
  • Prices
  • Delivers

• If you are not online, people look at you askance. I think in three to four years' time people will look equally askance at you if you haven't got the ability for consumers to buy what they want, where they want and how they want.

  

  Stuart Rose
  • Looks
  • Ability
  • Online

• The problem with the mobile industry is that it deals with an intangible service which is largely similar across major players. Most consumers cannot tell the difference between Vodafone and Orange, or AT&T and Verizon in the U.S., beyond the colors and the logos. I suspect neither can the companies.

  

  Nirmalya Kumar
  • Difference
  • Companies
  • Consumers

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