Famous Quotes & Sayings

The resilience of the economy and the consumer have been better than expected. You've got so many potential negatives that it's sometimes hard to see the positives for the market. But the positives are powerful ones.

The resilience of the consumer really shines through in this data.

There's good evidence the U.S. housing sector is cooling, not collapsing, which means the U.S. consumer is going to cool.

Stephen Harper

There's no reason for the federal government to profiteer when consumers are hurting,

There's no question that what's happening in the stock market is going to hurt consumer spending. The only thing helping us is the performance of housing.

There's no question that industries that are purchasing steel are benefiting. But unlike industries that are hurt, consumers will never organize.

There's not a lot of tolerance here. Gas is expensive these days. Consumers should be able to get what they're paying for.

There's no such thing as enough due diligence that prospective consumers can do.

There's nothing more that consumers should be doing that they aren't doing already.

The trend is for higher yields given the outlook for economic growth. Consumer prices will probably turn positive after October.

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

However, consumers are demanding a more secure, functional operating system. And Microsoft has developed Vista to respond to that demand, while respecting its legal responsibilities.

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

Inflation totaled about 4% over the two months, which was largely due to the Artic temperatures, and surge in consumer demand for salt.

Inflation isn't a worry just yet. The consumer is in pretty good form. People are still spending on their credit cards.

In a world were international public opinion is ignored and where high level diplomatic pressure has failed, Greenpeace hopes that consumers can once and for all demonstrate that there is no profit in whaling.

Jorma Ollila

In mobile devices, we have been making excellent progress in expanding and upgrading our product offering, which is the broadest in the market and caters to all relevant consumers and trade customers globally,

In a normal seasonal environment, we would expect higher revenue, ... Our expectations have been tempered by the weak economy, and declines in consumer confidence.

Robert Patterson

In an organic system you don't waste anything. We need to educate the consumer to accept a tiny blemish on an orange.

I may be a retailer, but I'm a consumer at heart.

If the rates are too high, the consumers will move to another company.

If the retail investor has picked up, as you've seen in January, that's a positive, in that you want consumers to be saving more and investing. But you never want to be the last one in and too often that's the case.

If real spending rises at this pace in February and March, consumer spending will rise just 2.3 percent for the quarter, the softest since Q2 1997,

I had a conversation with Terry this morning and I told him that I don't support a decision to make a huge investment in another department store when many more consumers are shopping at off-mall retailers such as Wal-Mart, Target, Costco and Kohl's,

If you don't have the quality, the consumers won't tolerate it. There are too many places for people to go.

If you have productivity growing faster than the economy, how can you expect demand for labor to be all that strong? I'm still hopeful that unemployment won't go much higher than 6.2 percent or 6.3 percent, but where we'll peak is not as important as when we turn around. If we sort of linger at 6.2 percent, that will put some downward pressure on consumer spending.

If you don't offer consumers a legal alternative, they're going to migrate to an illegal alternative.

David Caruso

If you're in over your head, go out tomorrow and see a consumer credit counseling service, ... Talk to someone if you can't do the things on your list, or go find a financial planner to get some help.

If you look at the trend in Internet media, it's all about giving consumers control. You don't have to be unsatisfied by your local radio. You can find someone out there who's putting out what you want to hear.

W. S. Gilbert

If you look at the new products and consumer interest, they generally peak quickly and decline eventually. Over the last 15 years, organics has just continued to increase a little all the time. It never had the fashionable peaks of those other fads.

If you trust the market, you let the consumers pick winners and losers rather than the government doing so.

I liked what he had to say about insurance reform. I hope it's in the right direction, to help the consumer and not the other way around.

I kind of like consumer non-durables, (they are) all expected to earn 20 to 25 percent or better this fiscal year, ... They have good returns on equity, 15 percent plus. And I think they're priced appropriately within their price-to-earnings multiples.