Consumers Quotes

• Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

  Milton Friedman

  Philosophy, Government, People

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• Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

  Adam Smith

  Purpose, May, Ends

  'Wealth of Nations' (1776) bk. 4, ch. 8

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• The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.

  George M. Humphrey

  Eggs, Golden, Payroll

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• Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

  Herbert Hoover

  Business, Presidential, Competition

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.

  William S. Burroughs

  Junk, Doe, Clients

  The British Journal of Addiction, Vol. 52, No. 2, (p. 1), January 1957.

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• Consumers are increasingly feeling that they are being taken for a ride.

  Larry Craig

  Taken, Feelings

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• Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.

  Michael Schudson

  Trends, Advertising, Initiate

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.207, Routledge

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• Before long it will be the animals who do the dieting so that the ultimate consumer does not have to.

  Mimi Sheraton

  Animal, Long, Doe

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• There is no disputing the fact that American consumers pay 30 to 300 percent more for the same prescription drugs as our counterparts in Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Europe, Drug, World

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• But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer.

  Jay Chiat

  Technology, Thinking, Advertising

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

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• It's crucial to keep in mind that the hundreds of millions of dollars now spent on prescription drug advertisements are ultimately paid for by consumers in the form a higher drug prices.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Drug, Mind, Dollars

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• I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft.

  John W. Thompson

  Powerful, Thinking, Experience

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.

  Daryl Hannah

  Running, World, Corporations

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• So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Oil, Choices, Gasoline

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• People enjoy our meat and our poultry, as I do as a consumer.

  Mike Johanns

  People, Meat, Poultry

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• Right now we think that rates will stay low, that you'll be able to get a mortgage below seven percent and that's kicked off a refinance boom that's going to put more money in the pockets of consumers.

  Franklin Raines

  Thinking, Able, Pockets

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• Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Business, Humor

  "Your Guide to Self-Directed". Book by Daniel Cordoba. p. 197, September 19, 2008.

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• Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.

  Marc Bekoff

  Animal, Law, Individual Choice

  Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.171, Shambhala Publications

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• Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Latin, Work Out, United States

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• When you think of the blur of all the brands that are out there, the ones you believe in and the ones you remember, like Chanel and Armani, are the ones that stand for something. Fashion is about establishing an image that consumers can adapt to their own individuality. And it's an image that can change, that can evolve. It doesn't reinvent itself every two years.

  Ralph Lauren

  Change, Fashion, Believe

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• The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.

  Umberto Eco

  America, Guarantees, Want

  Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At Revolution Health Group we will put consumers back at the center of the system by giving them more choice, control and convenience.. while building the first comprehensive, consumer-driven health care company.

  Steve Case

  Giving, Choices, Groups

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• I also believe that it's the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food systems. And I believe that the consumer should have strong confidence in our food systems.

  Ann Veneman

  Confidence, Strong, Believe

  "Interview with Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman". "American Morning" with Soledad O'Brien, www.cnn.com. December 31, 2003.

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• One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data.

  Jared Sandberg

  Data, Digital, Helping

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• Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

  Anita Roddick

  Powerful, Government, Pockets

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