Buying Power Quotes

• There is no technical reason why we could not feed a world of nine billion people. Hunger is a matter of buying power, not of shortages.

  Louise Fresco

  People, World, Matter

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• Kellogg's and Campbell's moats have also shrunk due to the increased buying power of supermarkets and companies like Wal-Mart. The muscle power of Wal-Mart and Costco has increased dramatically.

  Charlie Munger

  Moats, Buying, Muscles

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• I think the big force is going to be consumer buying power.

  Roy Romer

  Thinking, Buying, Think Big

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• I can only hope that one day soon we'll understand our true economic buying power by investing in our own communities and putting our money into businesses that keep our dollars in our community.

  T.I.

  Community, One Day, Investing

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.

  Henry Ford

  Waiting, Cost, Buying

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.91, 谷月社

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• It's super important that people use their significant buying power to pull companies like Ferrari and show them there is a market for sustainable fuel. So many other car companies would take notice if Ferrari made headway on this measure.

  Petter Stordalen

  People, Car, Important

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• African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perrys career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently.

  Lynn Nottage

  Careers, African American, Buying

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• Until Americans feel that their core asset - their homes - are stabilized, they are not going to have the animal spirits and they will continue to have less buying power.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Home, Animal, Buying

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• U.S. labor leaders will realize that automation can multiply man's wealth far more rapidly than it is multiplying at present and that automation will leave all men free to search and research... Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Mean, Men, Leader

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• We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Nuclear, World, Weapons

  "Mohamed ElBaradei warns of new nuclear age". Interview with Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2009.

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• I'm an economist by training. And I know that what works is a permanent increase in buying power.

  Sarah Steelman

  Training, Buying, Increase

  "2012 Showdown in Missouri". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. November 29, 2011.

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• As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption, mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth ... to provide men with buying power. ... Instead of achieving that kind of distribution, a giant suction pump had by 1929-30 drawn into a few hands an increasing portion of currently produced wealth. ... The other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit ran out, the game stopped.

  Marriner Stoddard Eccles

  Men, Hands, Games

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• China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

  Bernard Arnault

  Numbers, Population, Buying

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• The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Issues, Government, Adoption

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• More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Voice, Buying, Influence

  Twitter post from Dec 13, 2015

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