Famous Quotes & Sayings

This letter was designed to take money from vulnerable consumers by distressing, frightening and misleading them.

This is where one is trying to get to. And the trouble is, in a lot of the experiments, the consumer is not understanding where this thing might lead,

This is what the Federal Reserve has been warning about for a long time -- we will still see consumer spending growth, but it will be more moderate than before, ... It's a retrenchment of consumer spending growth from blistering levels.

This is the low point. Consumer prices will go back up. We've been saying this for months.

In the short term, sales of some European consumer goods producers could suffer. However, on the other hand, western consumer goods in the region enjoy a high prestige.

Steve Ballmer

In the short term, I would be surprised if consumers saw any kind of immediate change.

Dave Mirra

I hope, being in the game so long, I can have a good idea what the consumer is looking for without compromising a core image.

I have to understand how we are going to market the movie. We view marketing as an extension of content creation... Every time a consumer sees our movie, in whatever form, our obligation is to entertain the audience.

Investors are very reluctant to hold positions in an environment like this. People are anticipating that if the data on consumer sentiment is fairly innocuous, the day could be over at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow morning.

Inventories have been drawn down, industrial production has stabilized and consumer spending remains strong,

In the last two months, the ups and down in the consumer spending numbers have been mostly driven by swings in the textile and leather sector.

Ralph Goodale

In the meantime, the Government will proceed with its review of Canada's existing legislation that governs the financial services sector. This review will deliver tangible improvements for consumer protection, streamline regulation and create opportunities for our financial sector.

Gary Shapiro

In the rush to crack down on pirates, we risk eliminating a critical consumer right the right to use copyrighted material, without the permission of the copyright owner.

In the months ahead, ABC.com will not only deliver a high quality, on-demand viewing experience to users, but will also gain valuable knowledge and research to help us better understand and serve our consumers in the rapidly evolving digital world.

In seven of the last eight election cycles, real consumer spending growth has decelerated in the holiday season in the year following the election. This is the first reason why consumer spending is expected to slow this holiday season.

If you want to consume any of the applets or engines that are in the 8.0 product line within an SOA, you can. That sets us up well for the next-generation SCA technology.

In my present position, personnel management consumes about 95 percent of my time. I have experience working with people, and I'm also a people person. I think all of that will be important in this role.

I never thought I would live to see the day when my friends in the telephone industry would become consumer advocates.

Brad Anderson

In addition, it has been less successful than we had hoped in selling consumer electronics in its mall stores.

Jim Hall

It has to resonate with consumers on an emotional level. It must be a must-have to compete.

It helps future-proof, to some extent, the consumer's purchase. If a unified format is developed, it will probably be supported by the player, or if one is a de facto market winner, the consumer hasn't lost out.

I just don't think the consumer is going to roll over on the back of a cooling sector.

Justine Bateman

I'm consumed with tech - medical, computational, impossible tech. So, I don't know exactly what I'll wind up doing, where I'll go with all this schooling, but I'm willing that it be better than my dogmatic vision of it all.

I may be a retailer, but I'm a consumer at heart.

If the rates are too high, the consumers will move to another company.

If the retail investor has picked up, as you've seen in January, that's a positive, in that you want consumers to be saving more and investing. But you never want to be the last one in and too often that's the case.

If real spending rises at this pace in February and March, consumer spending will rise just 2.3 percent for the quarter, the softest since Q2 1997,

I had a conversation with Terry this morning and I told him that I don't support a decision to make a huge investment in another department store when many more consumers are shopping at off-mall retailers such as Wal-Mart, Target, Costco and Kohl's,

If you don't have the quality, the consumers won't tolerate it. There are too many places for people to go.

If the world did not purchase and consume meat, there would be none to slaughter and offer meat for sale.

If you have productivity growing faster than the economy, how can you expect demand for labor to be all that strong? I'm still hopeful that unemployment won't go much higher than 6.2 percent or 6.3 percent, but where we'll peak is not as important as when we turn around. If we sort of linger at 6.2 percent, that will put some downward pressure on consumer spending.

If you don't offer consumers a legal alternative, they're going to migrate to an illegal alternative.

David Caruso

If you're in over your head, go out tomorrow and see a consumer credit counseling service, ... Talk to someone if you can't do the things on your list, or go find a financial planner to get some help.