Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wireless networks are great. They enable a lot of freedom, but they also come with risks. Consumers need to protect themselves.

Whilst the immediate impact on European energy prices has been negligible, the dispute has served to emphasize the dependence of Western Europe on Russian gas supplies and the issue has the potential to keep European gas consumers on edge for some time.

While the CBI survey indicated a marked softening in consumer spending following the relatively strong December performance, it nevertheless indicated a significantly stronger performance than that seen overall in recent months.

We continue to perform well in our core UK consumer markets,

I think many investors have failed to make the link between global growth and the U.S. housing market. The U.S. consumer remains 20 percent of the global economy, and a slowdown in housing and, in turn, U.S. consumption could hurt emerging market exports.

I think long-terms are probably headed under 5-1/2 percent. When will that come? As soon as we get the release of the PPI and the consumers price index.

I think long-terms are probably headed under 5-1/2 percent, ... When will that come? As soon as we get the release of the PPI and the consumers price index.

William Burroughs

Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client.

Nancy Anderson

It is encouraging to see our home state of Washington at the forefront of legislation and enforcement on these important consumer protection issues.

It is encouraging that consumers are taking the negative things that are happening recently. Possibly the employment situation is outweighing other concerns.

I think this week's performance has been very indicative of a bottom. The market made a lot of sense this week, since the Fed really helped to ensure the positive psychology that is needed to maintain consumer and investor confidence.

I'm still not convinced that Sony can stir growth. They have to come up with something nobody can imitate but consumers will buy. But they haven't given any details how they plan to do that.

We get requests all the time from consumers and they want us to sell everything from catnip to high-end automobiles,

We aren't trying to push them out; they are trying to push us out. The more people ensuring there is not discrimination in consumer lending is what we want, not fewer.

The problem isn't a lack of crude. You don't consume crude, you consume petrol, heating oil, diesel. If you don't have the refineries to do that, then we've got a problem.

We haven't raised our rates since 1992. In that time, the consumer price index has increased by 53 percent; but we have kept our rates steady over that time because we have managed costs.

Robert Kiyosaki

Silver is used in the electronics industry and is consumed daily; stock piles of silver are dwindling.

Ze Frank

Mobile video is now a reality and a force to be reckoned with. I think it is essential to think about how people interact with their phones; how they consume content and how they share.

Victor Koo

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

The problems are really isolated to the consumer end of the PC market in Europe, and that's being reflected in Dell and Gateway. We downgraded Intel this morning, but the stock's fall has factored in most of the revenue shortfall.

Water, milk, juices and even some foods contain a lot of fluid. Any foods that will melt, such as gelatin or flavored ice treats, or foods that contain a lot of liquid such as soup are measured as part of your fluid intake. For most people, the foods consumed count for about 20 percent of one's fluid intake.

We are demystifying the relationship between consumers and online services,

Like the mad dog running around in all directions, the greedy person, unaware, consumes everything, edible and non-edible alike. Engrossed in the intoxication of sexual desire and anger, people wander through reincarnation over and over again.

I was thinking consumer DSL pricing was only going to drop to about $40 a month by 2002, but thanks to this ruling, we'll probably get it down to around $32 by then, ... For every million new lines, there's going to be about a 3 percent reduction in monthly subscriber fees.

I think one way to look at this is that if this petition is approved, then North Texas consumers are going to feel Katrina's inflated effect on rates in January.

It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. It's hard to tell at what point consumers will start to balk. It defies the laws of economics.

Jessica Pare

I think I approach my choices much the way I approach the way I consume movies and TV and stuff. I like everything, and sometimes I'll feel like a horror movie, and sometimes I'll just feel like an episode of 'Hoarders.'

When it comes to consumer electronics, the longer you wait, it's always going to be smaller, faster, cheaper.

We're allocating to make it better for consumers and make it easier to understand for consumers. We can put all incentives on one page and explain it. There's no fine print. There's no crazy details.

We hope this provides transparency so consumers will be able to more aggressively negotiate with service providers.

While everybody is very happy with the performance of the economy under Greenspan, it's come at quite a price. We have a negative savings rate. The consumer has been out spending his and her income, partly supported by an increase in housing prices, where people had to pull a lot of the equity out of their home. Well they can't do that again.

While consumers may be a little leery of white, they don't need to be. What we're seeing is a very soft and romantic white, many times even bordering on ecru or a faded, old garment you had in white and then you go back to it and it's taken on a patina.

We're delighted that the FDA has moved forward at all. The worst thing for manufacturers and consumers is limbo.