Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Rosenberg

One has to wonder how long the consumer can continue to spend at ... dizzying rates without a material improvement in the labor market.

We have fewer consumers who have positive views of housing prices of any time since 1982 and fewer consumers who have positive views of interest rates of any time since the last recession.

We have designed Windows XP specifically to meet the needs of today's consumer and to unleash the power and potential of the PC.

We live in a consumer world where people are obsessed with keeping up with the Joneses.

This confirms that late in 2005 there was still no evidence that pay was starting to be pushed up by recently higher consumer price inflation and increasing energy bills.

This confirms my pessimistic scenario of a 0.9 percent growth for 2004 and consumer spending recovering only in 2005.

This focus on consumer needs is the next step in our evolution.

This anemic rise at the end of the third quarter suggests that consumer spending will rise much more slowly in the fourth quarter,

This accolade spotlights the increasingly high expectations of today's discerning consumers who travel with children.

This is a big week. So we'll have to see how the rest of week progresses, but the consumer number was big and we were definitely due for a rally.

Rob Enderle

This is a major slip with material consequences. Missing the fourth quarter will have a significant impact on consumer sales.

David Byrne

This is a major breakthrough that will provide consumers with much needed protection and rights,

When you look at the enabling technologies for live voice, most consumers have speakers, many have a microphone, but how you get them to work is another thing.

When you look at the details on the positive revision, it's a fairly robust figure. The consumer is continuing to drive a lot of the growth that we're expecting in the first quarter.

David Brown

What leads the U.K. economy out of weak growth is generally the consumer, and the consumer is not in that fit state to pump the economy to 2.5% or 3% growth.

With employment gains non-existent, income growth has slowed. As households also become more judicious in taking on more debt, consumer spending will remain soft.

With crude prices forecast to remain strong for the remainder of the year, consumers can expect, on average, higher pump prices than last year.

With consumers not spending, is it any surprise that the manufacturing sector has stumbled?

While information technology products will continue to be the largest market sectors for semiconductors, consumer products will be the major growth-drivers in the years ahead,

Gary Shapiro

While home entertainment continues to be an important segment of the consumer electronics industry, home information has become the largest and fastest growing product group.

Without the early-termination clause, people would be gaming the system. People would walk away with a $500 phone for virtually nothing. An early-termination fee allows the wireless provider to recoup the costs of giving a phone to a consumer for a steep discount. Without it, you simply have an economic model that doesn't work.

Without the consumer Vista push for the 2006 holidays selling season, we think that discrete graphics processing unit sales could suffer slightly.

Richard Gordon

With the consumer in control, in order to stimulate demand you have to keep pressure on pricing, which is likely to have the long-term effect of keeping growth rates in the single-digit region forever more.

Richard Blumenthal

We need to develop a strategy that offers consumers the most immediate kind of remedy to the monopolistic power that Microsoft has misused, and to prevent Microsoft from repeating what seems to be the same kind of misconduct.

Sales at our national consumer electronics retailers, which are our primary distribution outlets for DirecTV Systems, have been slower than we expected, in large part due to the softening economy, ... In addition, we are seeing continued slowing in the contribution of subscribers from the rural markets that are served by the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC).

Michael K. Powell

Protecting consumers from service disruption is the Federal Communications Commission's first and highest priority,

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.

Radio Shack is continuously seeking new ways to ensure we are providing the American consumer with greater value.

Production growth is being driven by strong export demand and rising consumer spending at home. There will be some moderation in the fourth quarter because of slower investment growth and some temporary weakness in U.S. demand.

Producer prices seem to be rising at a slower rate than consumer prices and that is looking good for corporate profits and the strength of the economy at this point.

Procrastinating consumers and a late Hanukkah (December 25) helped to lift the holiday season's performance.

Jim Murray

Private consumers ... are not criminals and to portray them as such is insulting and counter productive.

The signs of an improvement in employment are very encouraging because that naturally feeds through to stronger incomes and consumer spending.