Consumers Quotes - Page 36

• Use vitamins in place of drugs. This takes some moxie to do, for we have been taught to be consumers of medicine. We have been taught that anything cheap and safe cannot possibly be effective.

  Andrew Saul

  Medicine, Drug, Moxie

  "Helping People Doctor Themselves". Interview with Richard A. Passwater, wholefoodsmagazine.com. January 18, 2013.

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• People really have to start being a smarter consumer, read labels, and understand what hidden sugars are.

  Jackie Warner

  People, Labels, Sugar

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 25, 2008.

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• Consumers around the world always want something unexpected and exciting, and that's what drives me. I love the challenge of reinterpreting my designs in new ways each season to keep the "prep look" modern and fresh.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Want Something, Design, Challenges

  "Hilfiger vs Nadal". Vanity Fair interview, www.vanityfair.com. September 22, 2015.

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• Consumers fall in love with a brand and it's important for a brand to develop and stretch itself to provide for their consumers. I don't suspect that a customer will walk into a store to buy a pair of jeans and end up buying a sofa, but it's about providing loyal consumers with a choice to create a lifestyle.

  Renzo Rosso

  Falling In Love, Jeans, Choices

  Source: www.wallpaper.com

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• You've got to be very insightful about your brand, who you are, and what you mean to people. You've got to be able to inspire the whole organization behind that vision, so that every touch point the consumer experiences with the brand is reflective of that same brand promise.

  Frances Allen

  Mean, Organization, People

  "The CMO.com Interview: Frances Allen, Chief Brand Officer, Denny’s". Interview with Giselle Abramovich, www.foxbusiness.com. March 4, 2016.

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• Excess consumption doesn't make people happy. We can continue to provide for our needs, but we can't continue the endless pursuit of ever more consumer goods. There is no energy source that can provide enough consumer goods to meet our human and emotional needs; there never has been, and that's why it's been such a fruitless pursuit.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Emotional, People, Energy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Being forcefully rattled out of our consumer mentality - our addiction to comfort and convenience can create an opportunity for us [people] to reconnect with what we really value and with the qualities of life that really can sustain us - which include reconnecting with our roles as citizens, community members, and human beings.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Opportunity, People, Addiction

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• As more consumers demand less sugar, the food and beverage manufacturers will eventually come into line with what the consumers want.

  James May

  Demand, Lines, Want

  Source: www.entrepreneurship-interviews.com

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• Governments can can send inspectors to companies. Governments can put legal requirements in place to disclose information that consumers and workers and other interested people need. Non-governmental organizations don't have that legal power and to me, that's what imposes substantial limitiations on how far we can go with trying to keep corporations accountable though non-governmental measures.

  Joel Bakan

  Business, Government, Organization

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• I am much more optimistic about consumer-driven change than I am governmental change. Anything can happen in government, but I do think we consumers can drive true change.

  Robert Kenner

  Optimistic, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The oil companies are really making a very lucrative amount of profit from the high price of oil. I don't that they're very keen to reduce the price of oil. The consumers are those who are the victims so I think that the producers, the governments, some of them, they're enjoying the high revenue that they get.

  Ahmed Zaki Yamani

  Thinking, Government, Oil

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I think this market space, this modern world we're living in, one of its greatest failures is that it can only seem to describe a collective in terms of consumers or clients. It never sees an audience or a community as part of the process. And that's something I'm quite proud of, even if the music is crap.

  Herbert

  Thinking, Space, Community

  Interview with Nitsuh Abebe, pitchfork.com. November 10, 2008.

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• As a consumer of entertainment, as a director, I'm always interested in questions of identity and who someone is and how they're perceived and who they are versus who they thought they'd be.

  Fred Savage

  Identity, Directors, Entertainment

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I first saw China, there were no automobiles. There were no supermarkets. There were no high-rise buildings. There were no consumer goods. There were no restaurants that were at least accessible that foreigners could see. It was a Stalinist society, and a very poor Stalinist society. So the economic system has totally changed, and the private sector in the economic system is now the dominant sector. It didn't exist at all as late as 1979.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Saws, Firsts, Building

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think as consumers Europeans are a lot more artist loyal irrespective of the genre of music or the type of project or the collaborative effort, and Americans are more media-loyal, because they need to be fed that media to know what's going on, because we're so inundated with promotion and marketing and everything that's going on - advertising.

  Serj Tankian

  Artist, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The glue that kept the consumer market together the last few years was the wealth effect from the housing boom.

  Joel C. Rosenberg

  Years, Together, Lasts

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• We need more expensive gasoline to change consumer behavior," Mr. Jackson said. Otherwise, Americans will continue to favor big vehicles, not matter what kind of fuel-economy standards the government imposes on auto makers. Four dollars a gallon, he added, "is a good start.

  Michael J. Jackson

  Government, Energy, Fuel Economy

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• Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species and upsets the balance of nature. The consumer ethic not only defiles the environment by creating undesirable change in the biosphere but also corrupts the mind and body by defining pleasure in terms of ownership and absorption. Waste itself is a human concept; everything in nature is eventually used. If human beings carry on in their present ways, they will one day be recycled along with the dinosaurs.

  Peter Marshall

  Inspiring, Creating, Upset

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• There is no reason products and services could not be swapped directly by consumers and producers through a system of direct exchange – essentially a massive barter economy. All it requires is some commonly used unit of account and adequate computing power to make sure all transactions could be settled immediately. People would pay each other electronically, without the payment being routed through anything that we would currently recognize as a bank. Central banks in their present form would no longer exist – nor would money.

  Mervyn King

  People, Adequate, Pay

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• Rather than simply interrupting a television show with a commercial or barging into the consumer’s life with an unannounced phone call or letter, tomorrow’s marketer will first try to gain the consumer’s consent to participate in the selling process.

  Seth

  Phones, Trying, Letters

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• Marketing by interrupting people isn’t cost-effective anymore. You can’t afford to seek out people and send them unwanted marketing messages, in large groups, and hope that some will send you money. Instead, the future belongs to marketers who establish a foundation and process where interested people can market to each other. Ignite consumer networks and then get out of the way and let them talk.

  Seth

  People, Marketing, Way

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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. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system the interest of the consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer; and it seems to consider production, and not consumption, as the ultimate end and object of all industry and commerce.

  Adam Smith

  Self, Purpose, May

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.274

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• God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with unalienable rights.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Men, Rights, Mind

  Benjamin Harrison (1901). “Views of an Ex-president”

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• I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal, as fragmented people make for better consumers.

  Kathleen Norris

  People, Goal, Strive

  Kathleen Norris (1998). “The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and "women's Work"”, p.35, Paulist Press

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• Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty.

  Robert Mondavi

  Eugenics, Almighty, Critics

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