Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're definitely going to see a very strong first quarter. It looked like consumers were hibernating in December, and all they needed was an excuse to go on a spending spree. The weather provided that.

We expect a couple of very rough months for consumers spending.

We really underestimated the impact of consumers sitting on the sidelines and not getting their hands on the next-generation 360 console.

You do have a defensive consumer. If the consumer is very nervous and uncertain about what is going to be happening, you don't know how they're going to react.

Protect the consumer by owning the product all the way from the soil to the table.

We are seeing good income growth and consistently good job growth, so the consumer remains in relatively solid shape. The economy is currently experiencing a nice, steady, solid momentum, the kind that can continue for an extended period.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world.

We are 15 years away from the peak ... The last (commodities cycle) peak was in 1975 ... Since then the system has mostly been consumer and technology driven.

We are responding to what consumers told us they want.

Jeff Baker

We are re-evaluating our position on any future releases at this time. We're looking at this on a case-by-case basis. We're disappointed with consumer demand at this time.

Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.

Adam Pally

'Portlandia' - love it. I can consume three episodes of it without even realizing I'm watching TV.

One of the most important keys to success in these markets is to offer attractive, reliable and easy-to-use mobile phones that are specifically designed to meet the unique needs of consumers in new growth markets.

Bill Richardson

I was shocked to learn that New Mexico does not have a law protecting consumers from price gouging,

Basically, the consumer will hang in there. Unless there's some kind of a major problem, the consumer tends to be more passive and will continue to spend if credit is available.

Because of the potential hazard of food-borne illness from consumption of meat products contaminated with pathogens such as the E. coli bacteria, I urge consumers who have purchased the suspect product not to eat it and return it to the place of purchase.

Fundamentally, the message in this report is that the only way to help consumers is to take technology away from them. I think that's incredibly paternalistic and misguided,

Fukui's remarks today fueled speculation that the end of the policy could come as soon as March. With consumer prices projected to keep rising this year, the BOJ may raise rates as soon as October.

Fun' sounds like crypto for consumer to me.

I don't think we want to exempt those requirements from the Consumer Protection Act,

I don't understand their objection to consumers hearing about the plan other than the fact that they don't want the Legislature to succeed.

I expect that Katrina will have very severe economic impacts because it will force consumers to increase expenditures on energy drastically,

George Soros

I expect by '07 there will be a significant decline in U.S. consumer spending, and I don't see what will take its place, because it's so important as the motor of the world economy.

From the consumer perspective, what happened in the U.S. 10 years ago and Europe five years ago is now happening in Russia. People are beginning to understand that e-commerce is easy and safe.

For most mainstream consumers I don't think they've had the option to have an application like this before.

Globalisation has powered economic growth in developing countries such as China. Global logistics, low domestic production costs, and strong consumer demand have let the country develop strong export-based manufacturing, making the country the workshop of the world.

If it didn't happen in the first quarter, it's going to have to happen at some point. If consumer spending or investment spending was a lot weaker than expected, it'd be a lot more troublesome.

If it's sustained it'll have a noticeable impact on consumer prices.

Today content is locked to play back on one device. Now we have the freedom to enjoy content on whatever device consumers want to use.

What we will see is that consumers will rely on multiple processes. Retail printing will grow in the short term, but at some point it will level off and decline.

What we were able to identify over five years is that hospitals that won more than once had a pure focus on continuous quality improvement. What the consumer can depend on with this list is that these hospitals are consistently good performers.

Kyle Hall

What we wanted to do is solve the issues for the consumers of where their pictures are going.

Going forward, HD DVD is destined to be a key driver for progress and the development of the consumer electronics, IT and entertainment industries.