Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joel Klein

Microsoft is a monopolist and it engaged in massive anti-competitive practices that harmed innovation and limited consumer choice.

Kofi Annan

will consume far more of our energy in the years ahead.

Hugh Johnson

Long term interest rates are higher now than they were in the second and third quarters, and debt levels are higher too. Yes, consumer spending will continue to expand, but it will be slower.

David Jones

Look at that Michigan Survey of consumer sentiment, the preliminary for early August, it is near record levels,

Mass retailers don't know much about order fulfillment on a one-time basis, ... Nothing turns a consumer off more than when you get sucked in, you want the product, and they don't have it. Brick-and-mortar retailers need to figure out these issues, and they're starting to.

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.

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 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,

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

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

For the first time, this industry is consumer driven. The consumer has said very often and loudly where the price points are.

For now, these data are a stark reminder to the MPC that the economy is still dangerously reliant on the consumer sector, which still has problems of its own.

For the past year and a half, the consumer has defied a recession and Sept. 11 and kept spending at a healthy pace.

I don't think the bank's message has really changed. The one view is that if consumer demand doesn't slow down, it will have to raise rates. But the other view is that consumer spending will come down.

David Lucas

I do think we're still going to experience higher incentives in upcoming months, especially as the 2003 model year comes to a close. Inventories are pretty high at this point. Even with strong incentives, there's a few too many vehicles in the market for the number of consumers buying.

I don't think these high energy prices are going away any time soon. Consumers are pulling back.

How that actually transpires to units sold to consumers we don't have any visibility into,

If consumers just go through (some preliminary) steps, they aren't going to have all these other problems.

If consumers feel it meets the standard of P2P, they'll be willing to try it, ... Otherwise, they won't care.

If consumers are not consuming more. Then you're not going anywhere.

Myron Scholes

Keynesian modelling relies on marginal propensity to consume and marginal propensity to invest. The idea that if we give more money to the poor, they have a propensity to consume that's much higher than the wealthy, though I wish they would talk to my wife about that; she seems to have a propensity to consume.

I would say that consumers are not pushing enough,

I think the general message here is that despite the fears about a low savings rate, the consumer continues to hang in there, and that's essentially the only thing that's going to keep the economy on track.

It gets tough when you try to tailor-make a plan for every single person, but at the same time we are paying for things we never use. Right now, it is kind of a one-size-fits-all approach, and from a consumer standpoint, someone who purchases health insurance, that doesn't go a long way in curtailing health-care costs.

Our mission is to make Washington the safest state in the nation for consumers and their personal information.

The hybrid Mariner is the right idea at the right time. To regain its competitive edge, Detroit must come to grips with how high pump prices have put consumers in an entirely new mindset. This vehicle proves that a determined Detroit can win this race.

The major problem weighing here this morning is Dell, ... They missed revenue projections by a lot, and their earnings were also at the low end of the target, so that is reminding market participants that there may be a consumer slowdown taking place.

The combination of stronger-than-expected consumer interest, a more profitable sales mix and tight controls on spending drove our earnings well-above expectations,

Tim Bajarin

This hits retailers, and it hits PC makers that were looking toward Vista for a surge in consumer PC sales at the end of the year.

This helps keep tickets out of the unauthorized, secondary markets where (another company) determines how much the consumer is going to pay. This way, fans decide.

All in all, the year-over-year trend in income jumped to 6.1 percent from 5.4 percent, suggesting that consumer fundamentals remain very strong, ... Consumer spending remains on a tear.

A key issue now will be whether the latest spike in gasoline prices leads to another 'soft spot' in consumer spending.