Consumers Quotes - Page 24

• For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resort. They've kept Europe out of recession, allowed China to industrialise, and prevented global deflation. But at the same time, they've not been looking after their own futures.

  Evan Davis

  Years, Europe, World

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• My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.

  Evan Davis

  Competition, Needs, News

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• Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the whole process, starting with a piece of raw ground, and ending up with a work of art in a bottle.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Art, Passion, Wine

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• The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Practice, Development, Framework

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• Google and Facebook, each in their own way, have revolutionized the delivery of advertising based on search and social networking, creating a sort of anti-Spam: targeted, relevant ads that a consumer might actually welcome rather than spurn.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Creating, Google, Networking

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• Society has a hyper emphasis on thin, and that trend comes from the consumers - it does not come from the fashion industry. The fashion industry needs to make money; that's what we do. If people said, 'We want a 300 pound purple person,' the first industry to do it would be fashion.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Fashion, Purple, People

  "Kelly Cutrone: ‘Society Has a Hyper-Emphasis On Thin and That Trend Comes From the Consumers’" by Nika Mavrody, www.thefashionspot.com. July 22nd, 2013.

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• Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.

  Margaret Chan

  Damage, Tobacco Industry, Profit

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• The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

  Vince Cable

  Skills, Long, Growth

  "Full text: Vincent Cable's speech to the Lib Dem conference" by Vincent Cable, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2005.

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• We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

  Barry Diller

  Law, Needs, Steps

  "Net neutrality should be law, says media tycoon" by Shane Richmond, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 15, 2011.

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• Recycling, packaging, businesses are changing all of those things because that's what consumers want.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Packaging, Want, Recycling

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• I'm not a great consumer. I always ask myself, 'Do I really need that piece?' I have friends who have 300 pairs of shoes; how would you leave the house in the morning?

  Mireille Guiliano

  Morning, Shoes, House

  "My life in shopping". Interview with Stephanie Powell, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2006.

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• Consumers deserve to know exactly what they're getting for their money when they sign-up for a 4G data plan.

  Anna Eshoo

  Data, Plans, Knows

  "New Bill Could Force Carriers To Better Define 4G Speeds" By Amy Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 22, 2011.

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• The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.

  Mohamed El-Erian

  Loss, Rating, Unthinkable

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• ...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other businesses, namely advertisers. So when you turn on the television set, CBS doesn't make any money. They make money from the advertisers. You're the product that they're selling, and the same is true of the daily newspaper. They're huge corporations, selling audiences, potential consumers, to other businesses, all linked up closely to the government, especially the big media. What picture of the world do you expect them to present?

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Media, Political

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• The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued reams of playground regulations and actually gone so far as to recommend against "tripping hazards, like tree stumps and rocks." Maybe we should just bulldoze the local parks and put in a couple of blobs... made of plastic.

  Lenore Skenazy

  Nature, Couple, Rocks

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• The revival of consumers saving their money for retirement - rather than expecting their homes to provide the cushion - added with 'move down' buyers will depress real-estate prices.

  David I. Rozenberg

  Depressing, Retirement, Real

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• Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks.

  Judd Gregg

  Safety, Community, Banking

  "Financial Regulatory Reform: Washington 'Going Stupid' Again?". "On the Record", www.foxnews.com. April 20, 2010.

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• North Carolina is home to some of the largest financial institutions in the country, and a vibrant network of community banks. We're a banking state, and we're proud of that distinction. But we also understand that responsible financial regulation protects consumers and businesses.

  Kay Hagan

  Country, Home, Community

  "Don’t Filibuster Cordray" by Kay R. Hagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2011.

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• If consumers make better choices, the marketplace will change.

  Mike Huckabee

  Choices, Marketplace, Ifs

  Interview with Tara McKelvey, www.marieclaire.com. June 14, 2007.

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• People go to Disney because they know its brand attributes. We believe we have an opportunity to go with our content directly to consumers.

  Bob Iger

  Believe, Opportunity, People

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• Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Giving, Albums, Want

  "Warner Music Group CEO: Steve Jobs Got the Best of Us" by Paul Bond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 31, 2012.

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• By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variations, we found products that consumers demonstrably valued and were willing to purchase at premium prices. And guess what? We've sold tons of them.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Albums, Video, Variation

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• Women are clearly the major consumers in far more than just female categories. It doesn't matter whether it is purchases of cars, cosmetics, or even products for men, female consumption power is the leading consumption power in the world. Any company that overlooks the woman as the decision maker is making a huge mistake.

  Andrea Jung

  Mistake, Men, Car

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• To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that's just beyond. It's a dream.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Dream, Design, Able

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• Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.

  John Noble

  Children, Regret, Writing

  "John Noble Talks FRINGE Series Finale, His Reaction to Reading the Final Script, the Last Day on Set, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2013.

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