Consumers Quotes - Page 5

• Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.

  David Suzuki

  God, Spiritual, Time

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• Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

  Christopher Lasch

  Heart, Upgrading, Taste

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.520, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline.

  Mike Rogers

  Majority, Records, Gasoline

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• And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.

  Dick Wolf

  Tv Shows, Watches, Care

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• The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer.

  Ron Wyden

  Oil, Administration, Helping

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• The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel

  Ed Markey

  Christian, Lions, Chance

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• The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Numbers, Law, Population

  Henry Charles Carey (1851). “The Harmony of Interests, Agricultural, Manufacturing, and Commercial”, p.63

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• Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Fun, War, Thinking

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• The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

  Wim Wenders

  Independent, Criticism, Age

  "The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

  Barry White

  Beautiful, Art, Stars

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

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• There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.

  Donna Tartt

  Couple, Years, Expectations

  "Conversation with Donna Tartt, Author of 'The Little Friend'". Random House interview, www.randomhouse.com. October, 2003.

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• Since I'm a mother and a wife, I have to have passion or the frustration would win out. But I love managing people. The product is second to managing the people. And marketing to consumers is so challenging because it is evolving constantly.

  Andrea Jung

  Mother, Passion, Frustration

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• I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers.

  Chuck Grassley

  Issues, Drug, Competition

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• Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.

  Major Owens

  Fall, Oil, Gasoline

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• Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking.

  Scott D. Cook

  Thinking, Ideas, Revolution

  Interview with Michael J. Miller, www.pcmag.com. November 18, 2003.

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• We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability.

  Paul Gillmor

  Meaningful, Country, Commitment

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• I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.

  Bennie Thompson

  Confidence, Believe, America

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• But, when we started our product portfolio, we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio applications , targeting our technology into the growing use of digital technology in consumer markets.

  David Milne

  Technology, Use, Growing

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• I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.

  James L. Barksdale

  Thinking, Giving, Choices

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• I think we have a great track record on being relevant, on identifying consumer trends, needs and wants.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Thinking, Track, Needs

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• Our job is to ensure that meat and poultry products are safe, wholesome, accurately labeled for the benefit of the American consumers, and to make sure that they are in compliance with all federal laws.

  Mike Johanns

  Jobs, Law, Meat

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.

  Charles M. Vest

  Growth, Boards, Cost

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• In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

  Ivan Illich

  Two, Envy, Addiction

  Tools for Conviviality ch. 3 (1973)

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• Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

  Herbert Hoover

  Depression, Business, Cells

  Herbert Hoover, Arnold S. Rice, United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover) (1971). “Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964; chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• Unless your campaign has a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night.

  David Ogilvy

  Night, Ideas, Marketing

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