Consumers Quotes - Page 6

• Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.

  Herbert Hoover

  Depression, Cells, Action

  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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• The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Development, Capitalism

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• In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

  Walker Percy

  Faith, Lonely, Inspiration

  Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land”, p.161, Open Road Media

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• We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.

  Lily Tomlin

  People, Lifestyle

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• Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Race, Political, Viewpoints

  Frederic Bastiat (2001). “Economic Fallacies”, p.61, Simon Publications LLC

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• If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.

  B. F. Skinner

  Numbers, Balance, Population

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.11, Hackett Publishing

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• Consumer electronics is a challenging one.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Challenges, Electronics

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• Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Vaccines, Needs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.622, Modern Library

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• I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

  Richard Branson

  Success, Business, Feelings

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• Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

  Quentin Crisp

  Inspirational, Vices, Green

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• Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.

  Larry Elder

  Jobs, Unemployment, Cost

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• There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time.

  Trip Hawkins

  Powerful, Principles, Electronics

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• At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.

  Cliff Stearns

  Goal, Safety, Privacy

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• Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Class, Pornography, High Class

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I.

  Matthew Lesko

  Government, People, Boards

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• It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Taught, Economic, Economy

  "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression" by the United States Department of State, Vol. 2, (p. 746), 1946.

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• But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate.

  Jim McDermott

  Hurt, Thinking, Government

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• I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in the view of the consumer.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Thinking, Views, Years

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• Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you're an owner. Faith is at its best when it's that way too. It's best lived when it's owned.

  Bob Goff

  Way, Ownership, Feels

  Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth.

  Steve Case

  Games, Video, Machines

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• Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.

  Cesar Chavez

  Risk, Environmental, Benefits

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• A person's credit report is one of the most important tools consumers can use to maintain their financial security and credit rating, but for so long many did not know how to obtain one, or what to do with the information it provided.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Long, Important, Tools

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• Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.

  Stephen Bayley

  Design, Rich, Process

  Stephen Bayley (1991). “Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things”, Pantheon

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• Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Years, Energy, Cost

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• China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world.

  S. R. Nathan

  Moving, Chinese, World

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