Famous Quotes & Sayings

It never really got consumers in the act.

It's a pattern. Prices go up, consumers get angry, politicians investigate, nothing changes.

It really is very weather-sensitive. You've got to psych the consumer into thinking the fall is coming. And the season is longer because kids wait to see what other kids are wearing.

It really put us on ... the mass consumer map,

It probably won't mean much lower prices. It's going to obviously give consumers greater convenience, and that's what consumers want with drugstores.

It plays very well into our consumer strategy of trying to own as many customers as we can around the world so we can move them to various of our leisure offerings.

It provides consumers with the right information on why it's important to feed better-quality ingredients.

This letter was designed to take money from vulnerable consumers by distressing, frightening and misleading them.

This is where one is trying to get to. And the trouble is, in a lot of the experiments, the consumer is not understanding where this thing might lead,

This is what the Federal Reserve has been warning about for a long time -- we will still see consumer spending growth, but it will be more moderate than before, ... It's a retrenchment of consumer spending growth from blistering levels.

This is the low point. Consumer prices will go back up. We've been saying this for months.

There's a lot of innovation around products that fall under the umbrella of 'good for you'. Increasingly that's the direction the consumer is moving.

There's been a lot of speculation as to how consumers will react to higher gas prices, ... I think consumers really took us by surprise.

There's a major differentiating factor between consumer electronics and other types of technology, and that's time.

It wasn't just big items that made a mark in 2005. Consumers went after MP3 players and digital cameras, creating a robust year for the two categories.

We found out, from talking to consumers and store operators all over the country, that low-dollar items went very fast. Forget about high-end items.

Bill Murray

As far as the consumer is concerned, they think it's a stand-by ticket where you have to sit in the back by the toilet,

As a result, the food safety of consumers was treated carelessly, raising questions once more about government responsibility.

Michael Chambers

Real discretionary spending has been cut to the bone. That would gel with the sense we get in Indonesia of a very sharp drop in consumer durable purchases, motorcycles. If you go to electronic shops you'll see a sharp decline there as well.

People are worried about possible net interest margin compression and credit quality deterioration, as well as slowing consumer loan growth.

People are witnessing how interested consumers are in experiencing digital music, consuming it that way, and having the convenience of consuming it that way. It's a quickly growing, voracious audience.

People feel that they were making large profits beforehand, but now they're making it off consumers at a time when the country is on its knees.

People gravitate towards Magellan and it really hasn't let them down for the most part, so I think it says a lot for our economy, it's followed our economy an is responsible, in large measures, for the success that consumers have today.

Or thesis has been that HP would have a solid second half, driven by strong results in the consumer market, which should move the stock back up to our price objective of $140.

North American manufacturers have really focused on product, launching a wide variety of new and exciting model offerings, ... In the end the consumer wins, in terms of choice, product quality and affordability.

Oil continues to dominate trade, with crude at or near the highs. Worries remain about how high prices over the long term will impact consumer spending, the economy and interest rates.

Once the parades have ended and the leftovers are put away, many consumers will find a few precious hours to get a jump-start on the holidays by shopping online, ... This year, retailers will be reminding shoppers that even though their stores may be closed, their Web sites are always open.

The more people are vocal about the risks in the secondary market, the better it's going to be for consumers overall. Why would you go to an unauthorized site when you can go to a site and get a ticket that you know is going to get you in.

The more important development more recently was the tax cut that was enacted over the weekend, which will provide some pretty good support for consumer spending over the next few quarters.

Delivering information to the consumer is a very, very powerful tool. It's giving them more control in their life.

December's trade data supported the message from yesterday's industrial production figures that the economy is unlikely to rebalance away from the consumer and towards the external sector any time soon.

Despite the risks to the economy, such as a potential retrenchment by consumers or the whole question of high debt levels, you seem to have the ingredients for a self-reinforcing recovery.

Michael Gregory

Despite the fact that energy prices are creeping up and housing continues to crumble, surveys suggest job gains are providing an offset for confidence. The potential is there for consumer spending to remain resilient.