Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are demystifying the relationship between consumers and online services,

Whilst the immediate impact on European energy prices has been negligible, the dispute has served to emphasize the dependence of Western Europe on Russian gas supplies and the issue has the potential to keep European gas consumers on edge for some time.

While the CBI survey indicated a marked softening in consumer spending following the relatively strong December performance, it nevertheless indicated a significantly stronger performance than that seen overall in recent months.

We continue to perform well in our core UK consumer markets,

When it comes to shopping for their special someone on Valentine's Day, consumers turn to more sentimental gifts.

When it comes to consumer electronics, the longer you wait, it's always going to be smaller, faster, cheaper.

We're allocating to make it better for consumers and make it easier to understand for consumers. We can put all incentives on one page and explain it. There's no fine print. There's no crazy details.

We hope this provides transparency so consumers will be able to more aggressively negotiate with service providers.

Other than autos, the rest of consumer spending is doing OK.

Ian Bell

Other sites that specialize in news and reviews for the digital lifestyle don't produce video profiles of this caliber, so we're excited to fill this niche. We've already received tremendous feedback from consumers and advertisers.

Retail sales -- a little disappointing when you look outside autos. All in all, it suggests moderate growth in consumer spending.

Retail is actually the fastest-growing segment of digital printing right now. Early adopters were more techno-savvy, spent a lot of time fiddling with images, printing some but not all of them. As that mainstream consumer has moved to a digital camera, they want to be able to get their high-quality prints as easily as they've been used to.

Retailing and consumer spending are a function of a four-letter word -- jobs. And there are no jobs being formed in the United States at the present time. We are in an unfortunate labor climate, one that might be called not at all propitious for retail spending.

Retailers know this stuff works and that consumers like it when it's done properly.

Retailers are getting better and better at managing shipments, but any screw-up, and you lose the customer forever. However, I heard a lot fewer consumer horror stories this year. I think we got a little lucky this year; there were no major weather storms that played with logistics.

Edward Fox

Restocking fees are more prevalent in consumer electronics because the merchandise tends to become obsolete very quickly.

James Howard Kunstler

Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as 'consumers.' OK? Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties to their fellow human beings.

It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. It's hard to tell at what point consumers will start to balk. It defies the laws of economics.

Jessica Pare

I think I approach my choices much the way I approach the way I consume movies and TV and stuff. I like everything, and sometimes I'll feel like a horror movie, and sometimes I'll just feel like an episode of 'Hoarders.'

This offer is a win-win; consumers can enjoy the convenience of our always-open online store, and at the same time, get a great low price on a high-speed connection.

Jeff Baker

We're disappointed with consumer demand at this time.

Jackie Speier

We think nothing of protecting consumers from faulty toasters or unsafe cars. Is it unreasonable to suggest that investors are entitled to information they can trust before investing their hard-earned money? I don't think it's unreasonable at all.

Jonathan Miller

Video consumption is exploding on-line and on-demand is going to be the dominant way to consume content.

We are struggling with cost issues and trying to understand what products will be and what consumers will want and be willing to pay for in the future,

We are very excited that we have helped over 300,000 people with their loan needs. That means we're definitely doing something right and our goals to help consumers are all in the right place.

We have fewer consumers who have positive views of housing prices of any time since 1982 and fewer consumers who have positive views of interest rates of any time since the last recession.

We have designed Windows XP specifically to meet the needs of today's consumer and to unleash the power and potential of the PC.

We live in a consumer world where people are obsessed with keeping up with the Joneses.

The Japanese consumer is very isolated from financial market dynamics.

The legislature has given us the task of protecting consumers who pay someone else to prepare their tax returns. One of the ways we're doing this is by providing a free new Internet tool, which helps consumers find tax preparers who are legally qualified to prepare tax returns.

The latest GDP figure confirms Japan's economy is now on a solid recovery trend with consumer spending, wages and employment all showing improvement. There are more than enough reasons to expect that domestic demand-related stocks will rise further.

The leadership in the economy is going to shift from housing and consumers to businesses. There's nothing unusual about that. It's healthy.

Robert Rubin

The introduction provides us with an opportunity to educate cash-handlers and consumers about the importance of authenticating currency, ... These security features are effective only when they are used.