Consumers Quotes - Page 4

• It isn't the consumers' job to know what they want.

  Steve Jobs

  Jobs, Want, Knows

  "Can Apple Find More Hits Without its Tastemaker?" by Steve Lohr, www.cnbc.com. January 18, 2011.

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• I say to consumers: instead of relying totally on critics, drink what you like and like what you drink.

  Robert Mondavi

  Drink, Economy, Critics

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• We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Oil, Records, Problem

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• American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, America

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• Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

  Jeff Bezos

  Amazon, Want, Strive

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• We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.

  Richard Branson

  Believe, Phones, Years

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• America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Teacher, America, Democracy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

  Christopher Lasch

  Want, Advertising, Economics

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• In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

  Max Lerner

  Civilization, Environmental, Cocoons

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight.

  Dan Lipinski

  Country, Sight, Feelings

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• The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

  Ralph Nader

  Stifling, Behalf, Corporate

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• What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Insightful, Marketing

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• The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

  David Ogilvy

  Leadership, Business, Vocabulary

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Feet, Abuse, Cost

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• Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.

  Ken Salazar

  Country, Statistics, Pay

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• Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Memorable, Feminist

  Interview with Digby Diehl, www.maryellenmark.com. March 1972.

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• And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure.

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Exercise, Numbers, Political

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• A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.

  Linus Torvalds

  Giving, Thousand, Just One

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• For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Use, Way, Get Money

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• Clearly, Japan is a most important market for digital consumer products.

  David Milne

  Japan, Important, Digital

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• I think the big force is going to be consumer buying power.

  Roy Romer

  Thinking, Buying, Think Big

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• We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.'

  Leo Burnett

  Educational, Advertising Business, Want

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• When you focus on the consumer, the consumer responds.

  Alexander Wang

  Focus

  "Le Freak, C'est Chic: Die Antwoord Fronts Alexander Wang's T Campaign" by Nick Axelrod, www.elle.com. April 26, 2012.

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• The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Happiness, Lying, Simple

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• The value of an item—in the mind of a consumer—is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag.

  Roy H. Williams

  Differences, Mind, Tag

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