Consumers Quotes - Page 32

We are approaching levels - if we're not beyond levels - of threshold for the number of messages that consumers can take in in a given day. There is a kind of hunger for some kind of new approach to getting the word out about something.

Malcolm Gladwell

Numbers, Levels, Messages

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The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology.

Jeff Bezos

Technology, Important, Retail

"Speaking Out: Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos". The BusinessWeek Interview, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

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If consumers are asked to make greater sacrifices than industry, this country is going to have its greatest shortage of all -- a shortage of consumers.

Betty Furness

Country, Sacrifice, Shortage

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The consumer game is tougher than pro football and more conniving than chess. One side [industry] invents the rules and the other side [consumers] is left to guess what they are.

Betty Furness

Football, Games, Chess

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If American industry continues to sow contempt for the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer.

Betty Furness

Contempt, Reap, Industry

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Where is the pricing system that offers the consumer a fair choice between air to breathe and motor cars to drive about in?

Joan Robinson

Air, Car, Choices

Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.10, Academic Press

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From the consumer point of view, there may be questions about whether you'll have to be an AOL subscriber to get Time magazine, ... That combination of media with the access is one through which you may be able to block access to your competitors' subscribers.

Charlene Li

Block, Views, Media

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Consumers who are thinking of opening one of these no-limit credit cards may want to think how deeply their scores will be affected.

Craig Watts

Thinking, Cards, Credit

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Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in search of distractions and escalating sensations, and a fundamentalist culture wherein the rigors of a private journey are shunned in favor of an ideology that, at the expense of the paradoxes and complexities of truth, favors one-sided resolutions, black-and-white values, and a privileging of one's own complexes as the norm for others.

James Hollis

Black And White, Journey, Today

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In today's retail environment, competition comes from every conceivable retail format. To succeed, we have to operate more efficiently and compete more effectively against players at all levels of the retail demographic. There is no question that this is a bold and exciting move, and one I believe will have a positive impact on competitive retailing for American consumers in the longer term.

Bill Vaughan

Moving, Believe, Player

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Weight loss programs and health clubs have an ethical and legal obligation to adequately disclose details about program costs before customers sign a contract. They should also clearly explain how the program works and what is expected so that consumers can make an informed choice whether to join.

Bill Vaughan

Loss, Choices, Details

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Theres simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerlessness because so much power is now being put in the hands of the consumer. But the important thing that gets lost with some of these business owners who are very upset with us is its the whole picture that counts.

Jeremy Stoppelman

Hands, Accountability, Upset

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our domestic lives reflect the major trend that dominates the consumer marketplace today: an ever-increasing emphasis on variety and choice. ... we find ourselves inventing our lives as we go along, improvising in an effort to take advantage of the bewildering range of choices that we face.

Sally Helgesen

Choices, Effort, Trends

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The responsiveness of a firm to the consumer is directly proportionate to the distance on the organization chart from the consumer to the chairman of the board.

Virginia Knauer

Distance, Organization, Corporations

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Consumer confidence in an industry can be a very fragile thing. It only takes a few builders who promise but don't deliver, who cheat rather than perform, who delay until the warranty expires rather than repair, to damage the reputation of an entire industry.

Virginia Knauer

Promise, Damage, Delay

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It's certainly anyone's prerogative to say, 'I liked something more when it was this' or blah blah. But there's a kind of laziness as a consumer of entertainment, I think, to wish that something was repeating itself and doing the same thing. But to each their own, and I do it all the time. I've dropped television shows as a viewer.

Justin Kirk

Thinking, Wish, Television

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I like being a consumer. I'll do collabs with brands I like, only because I would like something free to wear. But I don't want people to dress like me, which is what you're asking when you create a brand. The fashion industry's just a super-duper headache.

Kid Cudi

Fashion, People, Dresses

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If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But it's also going to be very hard to live the rounded and joyful lives that could be ours. This is a subversive volume in all the best ways!

Bill McKibben

Thinking, Growth, Environmental

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All I am asking is that we follow the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." This is fundamentally a moral issue, not an economic issue. Given what we know now, it is simply unethical to impose risk of grave damage on future generations just so that we can have a few more consumer products today.

Ken Caldeira

Issues, Risk, Growth

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No company has a permanent consumer franchise. No one has the only game in town. The never-ending cycle of destruction and change inherent in a capitalist economy always provides new opportunities for those with determination, goals and concentration.

Harvey Mackay

Determination, Opportunity, Service Culture

Harvey Mackay (1996). “Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, & Outnegotiate Your Competition”, Ballantine Books

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If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires a privilege and at the cost of the whole community; it can make sure of profits not altogether due to the productive services rendered, but composed in part of an actual tax upon consumers for its private profit' which tax it commonly shares with the authority that thus unjustly lent its support.

Jean-Baptiste Say

Philosophy, Class, Support

Jean Baptiste Say (1827). “A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth”, p.91

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What should a brand leader advertise?Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.

Al Ries

Leader, Important, Behavior

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If your marketing is not delivering consumers to the cash register with their wallets in their hands to buy your product, don't do it.

Sergio Zyman

Hands, Marketing, Cash

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Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.

Jennifer Weiner

Men, Fiction, Bigger

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Consumer groups fought hard to provide investor protections for special entities such as pension funds, schools, and municipalities who purchase swaps. No comparable protection exists in the futures market.

Daniel L. Doctoroff

School, Special, Groups

"Out of the Shadows and Into the Light" by Daniel L. Doctoroff, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2013.

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