Consumers Quotes - Page 30

• President Obama has shown he has the vision to support average consumers and taxpayers.

  Austin Ligon

  Average, Support, Vision

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• I appreciate good criticism and I think it's really important. I don't like it when it's consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature. I've written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it's important for people to know that theatre is vital. Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town. Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It's killing new plays, demolishing one after another.

  Adam Rapp

  Thinking, Play, People

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• I don't mean to imply that we are in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the earth - at least, not on account of global warming. But climate change does confront us with profound new realities. We face these new realities as a nation, as members of the world community, as consumers, as producers, and as investors. And unless we do a better job of adjusting to these new realities, we will pay a heavy price. We may not suffer the fate of the dinosaurs. But there will be a toll on our environment and on our economy, and the toll will rise higher with each new generation.

  Eileen Claussen

  Jobs, Mean, Fate

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• Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity not only permitted but actively encouraged by our rulers. The pleasure of eating an ice cream cone may be minor compared to the pleasure of meaningful, autonomous work, but the former is easily available and the latter is not. A poor family would undoubtedly rather have a decent apartment than a new TV, but since they are unlikely to get the apartment, what is to be gained by not getting the TV?

  Ellen Willis

  Meaningful, Ice Cream, People

  "Women and the Myth of Consumerism". Book by Ellen Willis, Ramparts, 1969.

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• The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.

  Charlie Brooker

  Fall, Smartphones, Two

  Charlie Brooker (2012). “I Can Make You Hate”, p.68, Faber & Faber

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• Consumers are realizing the benefits of in-car entertainment and navigation systems. When used properly, these products are great tools that help drivers focus on the road. Consumers need to remember to follow state laws, watch the road and use common sense when putting these and other products to work.

  Gary Shapiro

  Law, Car, Common Sense

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• I'd much rather have the consumer buy a Wii, some accessories, and a ton of games, vs. buying any of my competitor's products.

  Reggie Fils-Aime

  Games, Accessories, Wii

  "Nintendo hopes Wii spells wiinner". Interview with Byron Acohido, usatoday30.usatoday.com. August 15, 2006.

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• What defines Web 2.0 is the fact that the material on it is generated by the users (consumers) rather than the producers of the system. Thus, those who operate on Web 2.0 can be called prosumers because they simultaneously produce what they consume such as the interaction on Facebook and the entries on Wikipedia.

  George Ritzer

  Wikipedia, Facts, Produce

  George Ritzer (2010). “Globalization: A Basic Text”, p.290, John Wiley & Sons

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• Governments and politicians use the family as an indicator of the health and strength of social life. Politicians fear that any weakening of family life will in some way sap the vitality of national life.... The family is also important to businessmen. It is one of the major purchasing groups of our consumer society.

  Adrian Wilson

  Government, Important, Vitality

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• There is no substitute for an ecstatic consumer.

  Mark Joyner

  Substitutes, Ecstatic

  Mark Joyner (2010). “The Irresistible Offer: How to Sell Your Product or Service in 3 Seconds or Less”, p.155, John Wiley & Sons

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• The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.

  Andy Hobsbawm

  Smartphones, Everyday Objects, Dumb

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• Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!

  Indra Nooyi

  Design, Innovation, Female

  "Sports: By Women and For Women" by Indra Nooyi, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out!

  Terence McKenna

  Way, Worship, Boundaries

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• Thus a new way of finding fluidity will inevitably be imposed on management and labor alike. The profit-sharing, or "progress" sharing union contract is the only possible way of satisfying labor and the consumer without saddling industry with fixed costs that in depression periods can kill off marginal companies like flies.

  John Chamberlain

  Wisdom, Progress, Cost

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• Some years ago a top Ford official was showing the late Walter Reuther through the very automates plant in Cleveland, Ohio and he said to him jokingly, "Walter, you'll have a hard time collecting union dues from these machines." and Walter said, "you are going to have more trouble trying to sell automobiles to them." Both of them let it stop there. There was a logical answer to that ... the owners of the machines could buy automobiles and if you increase the number of owners you increase the number of consumers.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wisdom, Hard Times, Numbers

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• The real struggle between an American government and the people was one of power, which was settled when they designed their Constitution, which conceded the sovereignty of the people when it came to politics, and the sovereignty of the consumer when it came to economics.

  Ndabaningi Sithole

  Wisdom, Real, Struggle

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• If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.

  Kin Hubbard

  Business, Government, Democracy

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• Letting the free market do whatever it wants. That's not been historically how we grow. We have to invest in education, in rebuilding broadband lines and roads and runways, and it's important that we bring back American manufacturing and regulations to prevent consumers from being cheated.

  Barack Obama

  Important, Lines, Want

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I'll tell you what the fair tax does, it empowers the consumer and it lets people have their whole paycheck and it takes the power out of the hands of Congress and puts it in the hands of the consumer. That's power to the people.

  Mike Huckabee

  Hands, People, Empowering

  "Mike Huckabee lays out path to 2016 Republican nomination; Amb. John Bolton talks NSA surveillance, growth of ISIS". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 24, 2015.

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• I think the whole thing is kind of sad, honestly, in the same way that our civilization - particularly the consumers of pop culture - has grown so used to an emasculated, bare-chested leading man that something like simply growing a mustache can impress people.

  Nick Offerman

  Men, Thinking, Civilization

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• Contrary to popular stereotypes, seeking simplicity doesn't require that you become a monk, a subsistence forager, or a wild-eyed revolutionary. Nor does it mean that you must unconditionally avoid the role of consumer. Rather, simplicity merely requires a bit of personal sacrifice: an adjustment of your habits and routines within consumer society itself.

  Rolf Potts

  Mean, Sacrifice, Simplicity

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• When you see most companies get big, they want to shout about all they've done. But the consumer wants to know: 'What have you done for me lately?'

  Kevin Plank

  Done, Want, Bigs

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• Production chains, how consumers can drive change: all these things may seem at odds with fashion, but arguably, they're not.

  Lily Cole

  Fashion, Odds, May

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Another sad comestive truth is that the best foods are the products of infinite and wearying trouble. The trouble need not be taken by the consumer, but someone, ever since the Fall, has had to take it.

  Rose Macaulay

  Taken, Food, Fall

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.75, A&C Black

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• in television the product is not the program; the product is the audience and the consumer of that product is the advertiser. The advertiser does not 'buy' a news program. He buys an audience.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Doe, News, Television

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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