Famous Quotes & Sayings

As mobile use grows, consumers want to be able to do more with their mobile devices.

All our surveys and research have demonstrated that consumer spending is very slow in growing and contracting. It resists change. We can expect this to last quite a while.

A combination of weak consumer spending and challenging world markets is weighing on UK manufacturing.

The new high-speed entertainment services offered via the Sprint Power Vision Network represents another key milestone in the development of consumer wireless services, ... Sprint already enjoys the highest revenue per retail subscriber in data-oriented services in the industry and will likely woo many more customers with these new, innovative services.

A further rise (in the Nikkei) would need support from good fundamental news, such as corporate earnings or consumer spending.

It's not a matter that you're penalized if you're five minutes late with a payment and your interest rate doubles or triples. It involves delinquencies serious enough to show up on your credit report. It means the consumer is exhibiting riskier credit behavior.

It's not a yes or no that it will get scuttled, but the risk of its getting scuttled is up in the 60% to 70% range. In my opinion, there are several anticompetitive effects on consumers and I think there is a high risk that the DOJ will say Whirlpool will be able to raise prices and consumers won't have any choices.

It's not a big drop. It's reflecting the fact that the economy has improved this year, but not enough that consumers are convinced things are sufficiently better.

It's necessary to make the judgment calmly and objectively without any preconceived notions about whether the consumer price index excluding fresh food prices has stabilized at zero or above.

J. J. Johnson

It's really become a game of chicken, ... But to mix my metaphors, the consumer has also become trained like Pavlov's dog. He expects the pre-Christmas sales and deeper price cuts through the holidays.

It's reassuring. It is true that the consumer is the only part of the economy that's keeping the expansion going right now.

Services and probably consumer spending drove the increase in GDP. It makes a rate cut less likely for the moment.

So far, it looks like consumers didn't shop in the month of March. Basically, the results were mixed to disappointing.

Slowing income gains and increased uncertainty have savaged consumer spending. This has removed the only major support for the economy, insuring the recession will last, at least, into early next year.

Slower U.S. growth may reduce growth in oil demand in the second half of the year. We are seeing proof of reduced U.S. consumer confidence.

Rick Steves

Smart consumers should know what all the options are.

Evidence suggests that many vulnerable consumers are paying more than 3% of income for water...this is a higher percentage of income than the government's own guidelines on what is right for them to pay.

Stocks in the financial and consumer discretionary sectors look particularly vulnerable as the perception is that inflationary pressures will keep mounting and the Fed is not done with raising rates.

Students need to be good consumers and be smart and double check.

Stew Leonard's was an ideal place to debut our product, because consumers are in the mood to try new things.

Strong demand for digital consumer electronics such as flat panels and mobile phones is helping to make people optimistic about technology stocks.

Symantec has been able to keep raising rates on the consumer side. People feel that they have to have it.

Symantec has been able to keep raising rates on the consumer side, ... People feel that they have to have it.

Frederic Bastiat

Taxes must, in the end, fall upon the consumer

Target's increased emphasis on providing consumers with trend-right merchandise has strengthened the retail chain's presence as a destination for apparel.

Jose Barroso

Suppliers, consumers and transit countries are all interested in long term, sustained and predictable relations. There is an interest to have predictable rules and long-term commitments.

John Todd

Supply of key processors and motherboards was severely constrained, spotty and unreliable, particularly in our consumer sweet spot in the $999 to $1299 price range.

It's important to stay focused on the interplay between the consumer and the overextended housing market and sharp increases in energy prices, ... That will be key as to whether or not the US economy will sustain itself in 2006.

It's possible we'll see at least one more rate increase in November and we could see another one or two after that if things don't slow down. It may take that much to convince consumers and the stock market to take a breather.

It's our expectation that when a consumer pays $25 for something it should be worth $25 for a reasonable period.

Despite all of the news coverage about credit scores over the past year, many consumers still do not understand important facts about these increasingly influential numbers.

Domestic-demand related stocks will lead the market on speculation consumer prices may finally gain.

Consumers should never wire money to someone they do not know,