Famous Quotes & Sayings

The good news is that what we've seen is an unchanged reading for the nonpetroleum items and it looks like what we're still seeing is lower prices for many consumer items.

The good news is that on the consumer side of things, spending actually declined, and the real good news is the deflator was lower than the last quarter and there was a revision from the first quarter. So when you really dissect it all, it wasn't all that bad.

The good news for the U.S. is that growth has diversified. We aren't just relying on the consumer and housing.

Abbie Cornish

Whenever I am acting, it's everything, you know. If I'm researching a role, I'm completely consumed in that and, between action and cut, I live in this suspended time.

The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music.

We're hoping we can convince the Japanese consumer that our product is safe. We know it's safe, but we have to convince them it's safe.

Christie Hefner

We see this as a natural extension of the Playboy brand. By launching Playboy digital, we are offering consumers worldwide a digitized product identical in every way with Playboy's print edition.

Steve Wallace

We're thrilled to have received this honor for the third consecutive year. It's a testament of our dedication to quality and the loyalty of our consumers as we continue to grow in such a competitive space.

We're talking about consumers, and consumers want the product tested.

We've been consistently surprised by the strength of the labor market. We still think over the next year it will moderate amid slowing housing and consumer spending.

The government has failed to show any harm to consumers as a result of Microsoft's activities.

The government contributed to that strength by spending more. Retail stocks had a good first quarter because with the strong economy, consumers had flexible spending power. The retail sector still has the power to outperform for the rest of the year.

Ben Schwartz

If I play a video game, I have to get through the whole thing. Like, when the new 'Resident Evil' comes out, I have to sit and do the whole thing. It will consume my life. I'm at a point where I don't have much time to play around anymore, so I don't really get started on the games if I won't be able to finish them.

To pump up consumer or government demand would force interest rates up and asset prices down, possibly by enough to destroy more jobs than are created.

We should still have a pretty good quarter for consumer spending. January retail sales, excluding autos, were very strong.

Wal-Mart got the traffic, but not the margins, and that will raise questions about fourth-quarter earnings for retail in particular and the consumer sector in general. That's giving you some early caution.

James Lee

Wall Street is looking for small players on the Internet who are focused on a particular consumer segment. A dominant niche site can generate repeat visits from customers that are loyal to the site.

Bob Graham

I keep lists of names of people that I have met, a list of things to do day by day as well as a log of how my time is consumed throughout the day. It's a very important part of my personal discipline.

Amish Tripathi

Even though many Indians can read or speak English, for most, it is not their first language. At the office, we speak in English, but we consume our culture in our own language.

You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy.

Stephen Elop

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.'

Well, with gasoline well over $3.00 a gallon in most places when this survey was conducted, it is little wonder that consumers were cranky,

When the economy goes back down again, years down the road, will consumer credit be a major problem, like it was in the 1990-91 recession? ... Yes, it could come back to haunt us. But right now, it's a macroeconomic plus.

When we look at HP's consumer product lineup, we get very excited. We view that as a great potential opportunity for Rhapsody to flow into other devices.

We are excited to further our mission of delivering what consumers want, when, how and where they want it.

We are excited to continue to be a sponsor of NABJ. Through our partnerships and sponsorship of prominent organizations we are continuing a dialogue with the African-American consumer market by supporting organizations that seek to improve the quality of life in the African-American community.

We are excited about the potential opportunity to provide consumers with an FDA-approved over-the-counter option that promotes gradual, yet meaningful, weight loss.

Unfortunately, consumers are still not eating enough fruits and vegetables, which are better for you from an overall nutritional point of view due to their higher content of vitamins, minerals, and fibers.

Two-thirds of the economy is run by consumer spending. There seems to be plenty of people with plenty of money, a willingness to spend it and a willingness to go into debt.

Expectations are too dire. People are somewhat dismissing these companies' stronghold over the consumer security market.

Steve Ross

Factors like low inflation and lower interest rates will continue to give consumers more spending power while government initiatives like public spending and increased social grants should also provide support.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Family issues and a failing career would be enough to consume most young actresses.

But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.