Consumers Quotes - Page 23

• Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny - or not so tiny - leap of the imagination is made.

  Graham Joyce

  Eye, Imagination, Tiny

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• I tell young entrepreneurs to use the leader in their industry as a benchmark as they work to create their own brand. Dont look at what your competition is doing - if you emulate the leader in your industry, you will achieve a higher level of engagement with consumers and make their buying experience richer.

  Steve Stoute

  Young Entrepreneurs, Leader, Competition

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• While games are fun to play, children should grow up not just being the consumers of technology but also the creators of technology.

  Newton Lee

  Children, Growing Up, Fun

  Newton Lee (2013). “Read Me First: Android Game Development for Kids and Adults (Free Game and Source Code Included)”, Createspace Independent Pub

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• I’ve always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.

  Dylan Moran

  Years, America, Journalism

  "Interview: Irish Comic Dylan Moran Takes America by Typhoon". Interview with Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2013.

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• In projecting the future, I think Apple did a good job of figuring out when the technology was ready to be consumer-grade.

  Andy Rubin

  Jobs, Technology, Thinking

  "Android Chief Says Your Phone Should Not Be Your Assistant" by Ina Fried, allthingsd.com. October 19, 2011.

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• We are a consumer company and our success is directly linked to our users trusting us. Therefore we have the same incentive as the user: they want to see relevant advertising so their experience of Google is positive and we want to deliver it.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Google, Incentives, Want

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• I think that the consumer is generally unaware of certain material facts, particularly the tax risk and compensation issues.

  Ric Edelman

  Thinking, Issues, Risk

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• According to the Institute for International Economics, trade barriers cost American consumers $80 billion a year or more than $1,200 per family.

  Walter E. Williams

  Years, Cost, Economics

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• Say that Congress legislates gasoline price controls that sets a maximum price of $1 a gallon. As sure as night follows day, there'd be long lines and gasoline shortages, just as there were in the 1970s. For the average consumer, a $1.60 a gallon selling price and no waiting lines is a darn sight cheaper than a controlled $1 a gallon price plus searching for a gasoline station that has gas and then waiting in line. If your average purchase is 10 gallons, and if an hour or so of your time is worth more that $6, the $1.60 a gallon free market price is cheaper.

  Walter E. Williams

  Night, Sight, Average

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• Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Politics, Taxpayers, Democrat

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• There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less government, and maintain the traditions of society (at least in America's case). However, we must face the cultural contradiction of capitalism: the progress of capitalism, which necessitates a consumer culture, undermines the values which render capitalism possible

  Slavoj Žižek

  Government, America, Political

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• Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.

  Bill Bryson

  Food, Effort, Drug

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.25, VNR AG

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• If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.

  Max Lerner

  Mean, Decision, Unions

  "Lou Dobbs Tonight", www.cnn.com. November 14, 2003.

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• Consumers of meat, eggs and dairy products might well ask what they are supporting. Do farmers care about anyone but themselves? Can't anyone see the cow for the cheese?

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Eggs, Meat, Care

  "Here’s a Recipe for Roast Chicken Everyone Should Find Objectionable" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Fire, Eggs

  "Here’s a Recipe for Roast Chicken Everyone Should Find Objectionable" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the husband's fetishistic delectation. At the same time, babies were segregated, put into cold beds alone and not picked up if they cried.

  Germaine Greer

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Germaine Greer (1985). “Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility”

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• Gasoline prices are soaring through the stratosphere, and the Federal Trade Commission, which is supposed to be standing up for the consumer, ought to stop playing footsie with the oil companies and take steps to protect the American people.

  Ron Wyden

  Gasoline Prices, Oil, People

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• Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches the television.

  Germaine Greer

  Family, Mother, Father

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet consumer demands at lowest cost, or else be driven from the market. It is a profit-and-loss system. Naturally, existing businesses generally prefer to keep out competitors in other ways. That is why the business community, despite its rhetoric, has so often been a major enemy of truly free enterprise.

  Milton Friedman

  Business, Loss, Community

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• Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims.

  Mehmet Oz

  Names, Use, Deceiving

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• I believe strongly that the opportunity is here for us in America to finally have a healthcare system that we can really be proud of. But it's got to be one where everybody is involved. Everybody: consumers, employers, providers, health-insurance companies, everybody.

  Max Baucus

  Believe, Opportunity, America

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• Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass- a consumer's race with donkeys chasing an electric carrot.

  J. B. Priestley

  Race, Needs, Pressure

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• The Japanese, implementing a complex, long-term, and ultimately successful strategy to dominate the U S consumer-electronics market, attacked Pearl Harbor.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Successful

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”, p.119, Ballantine Books

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• In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  People, Surround Yourself, Enjoyable

  "Passion and pessimism" by Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2003.

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• Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

  Susie Orbach

  Trying, Needs

  "Fat is a prejudice issue" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2012.

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