Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think long-terms are probably headed under 5-1/2 percent. When will that come? As soon as we get the release of the PPI and the consumers price index.

I think long-terms are probably headed under 5-1/2 percent, ... When will that come? As soon as we get the release of the PPI and the consumers price index.

William Burroughs

Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client.

Nancy Anderson

It is encouraging to see our home state of Washington at the forefront of legislation and enforcement on these important consumer protection issues.

It is encouraging that consumers are taking the negative things that are happening recently. Possibly the employment situation is outweighing other concerns.

I think this week's performance has been very indicative of a bottom. The market made a lot of sense this week, since the Fed really helped to ensure the positive psychology that is needed to maintain consumer and investor confidence.

I'm still not convinced that Sony can stir growth. They have to come up with something nobody can imitate but consumers will buy. But they haven't given any details how they plan to do that.

We get requests all the time from consumers and they want us to sell everything from catnip to high-end automobiles,

We aren't trying to push them out; they are trying to push us out. The more people ensuring there is not discrimination in consumer lending is what we want, not fewer.

We haven't raised our rates since 1992. In that time, the consumer price index has increased by 53 percent; but we have kept our rates steady over that time because we have managed costs.

Victor Koo

Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.

The problems are really isolated to the consumer end of the PC market in Europe, and that's being reflected in Dell and Gateway. We downgraded Intel this morning, but the stock's fall has factored in most of the revenue shortfall.

We are demystifying the relationship between consumers and online services,

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.

I think one way to look at this is that if this petition is approved, then North Texas consumers are going to feel Katrina's inflated effect on rates in January.

It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. It's hard to tell at what point consumers will start to balk. It defies the laws of economics.

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

We're allocating to make it better for consumers and make it easier to understand for consumers. We can put all incentives on one page and explain it. There's no fine print. There's no crazy details.

We hope this provides transparency so consumers will be able to more aggressively negotiate with service providers.

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 consumers may be a little leery of white, they don't need to be. What we're seeing is a very soft and romantic white, many times even bordering on ecru or a faded, old garment you had in white and then you go back to it and it's taken on a patina.

We're delighted that the FDA has moved forward at all. The worst thing for manufacturers and consumers is limbo.

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.

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.

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