Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael K. Powell

I have a vision that's about technology that empowers consumers over institutions.

The government is alleging the only reason Microsoft is gaining consumer popularity is we must be doing something wrong. I think the facts speak for themselves.

The good news is that what we've seen is an unchanged reading for the nonpetroleum items and it looks like what we're still seeing is lower prices for many consumer items.

The good news is that on the consumer side of things, spending actually declined, and the real good news is the deflator was lower than the last quarter and there was a revision from the first quarter. So when you really dissect it all, it wasn't all that bad.

The good news for the U.S. is that growth has diversified. We aren't just relying on the consumer and housing.

Abbie Cornish

Whenever I am acting, it's everything, you know. If I'm researching a role, I'm completely consumed in that and, between action and cut, I live in this suspended time.

The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music.

We're hoping we can convince the Japanese consumer that our product is safe. We know it's safe, but we have to convince them it's safe.

Christie Hefner

We see this as a natural extension of the Playboy brand. By launching Playboy digital, we are offering consumers worldwide a digitized product identical in every way with Playboy's print edition.

Steve Wallace

We're thrilled to have received this honor for the third consecutive year. It's a testament of our dedication to quality and the loyalty of our consumers as we continue to grow in such a competitive space.

We're talking about consumers, and consumers want the product tested.

We've been consistently surprised by the strength of the labor market. We still think over the next year it will moderate amid slowing housing and consumer spending.

The government has failed to show any harm to consumers as a result of Microsoft's activities.

The government contributed to that strength by spending more. Retail stocks had a good first quarter because with the strong economy, consumers had flexible spending power. The retail sector still has the power to outperform for the rest of the year.

Without the early-termination clause, people would be gaming the system. People would walk away with a $500 phone for virtually nothing. An early-termination fee allows the wireless provider to recoup the costs of giving a phone to a consumer for a steep discount. Without it, you simply have an economic model that doesn't work.

Without the consumer Vista push for the 2006 holidays selling season, we think that discrete graphics processing unit sales could suffer slightly.

Richard Gordon

With the consumer in control, in order to stimulate demand you have to keep pressure on pricing, which is likely to have the long-term effect of keeping growth rates in the single-digit region forever more.

Richard Blumenthal

We need to develop a strategy that offers consumers the most immediate kind of remedy to the monopolistic power that Microsoft has misused, and to prevent Microsoft from repeating what seems to be the same kind of misconduct.

Well, with gasoline well over $3.00 a gallon in most places when this survey was conducted, it is little wonder that consumers were cranky,

When the economy goes back down again, years down the road, will consumer credit be a major problem, like it was in the 1990-91 recession? ... Yes, it could come back to haunt us. But right now, it's a macroeconomic plus.

When we look at HP's consumer product lineup, we get very excited. We view that as a great potential opportunity for Rhapsody to flow into other devices.

We are excited to further our mission of delivering what consumers want, when, how and where they want it.

We are excited to continue to be a sponsor of NABJ. Through our partnerships and sponsorship of prominent organizations we are continuing a dialogue with the African-American consumer market by supporting organizations that seek to improve the quality of life in the African-American community.

We are excited about the potential opportunity to provide consumers with an FDA-approved over-the-counter option that promotes gradual, yet meaningful, weight loss.

Unfortunately, consumers are still not eating enough fruits and vegetables, which are better for you from an overall nutritional point of view due to their higher content of vitamins, minerals, and fibers.

Two-thirds of the economy is run by consumer spending. There seems to be plenty of people with plenty of money, a willingness to spend it and a willingness to go into debt.

Expectations are too dire. People are somewhat dismissing these companies' stronghold over the consumer security market.

Steve Ross

Factors like low inflation and lower interest rates will continue to give consumers more spending power while government initiatives like public spending and increased social grants should also provide support.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Family issues and a failing career would be enough to consume most young actresses.

But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.

This was an honest-to-goodness better-than-expected report. There were no special factors in it that made it look artificially strong. The report also indicates that consumer fatigue may not be as severe as we had previously thought.

The only thing we're interested in is whether the events had an impact on consumer spending,

Dave Goldberg

The only thing that's going to work from a consumer perspective is something that's very simple, very low price, and works with all labels. I don't see that happening in the next year.