Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you look at the trend in Internet media, it's all about giving consumers control. You don't have to be unsatisfied by your local radio. You can find someone out there who's putting out what you want to hear.

W. S. Gilbert

If you look at the new products and consumer interest, they generally peak quickly and decline eventually. Over the last 15 years, organics has just continued to increase a little all the time. It never had the fashionable peaks of those other fads.

If you trust the market, you let the consumers pick winners and losers rather than the government doing so.

I didn't expect such a strong Q3, with the fickle economy, the war in Iraq, and zigzagging consumer confidence. Our estimate for the entire year was $96 billion.

Because the consumer did not have to pay the amount, it is income in the eyes of the IRS.

Gary Williams

Hopefully, we're going to make it a little easier for ... consumers to be able to be seen in a more quick fashion.

House price inflation has picked up in recent months; if this continues it has positive implications for consumer spending via the wealth effect it provides to homeowners.

Rick Majerus

He's real energized and enthused. It consumes his every waking moment,

David Milne

I don't really like to talk specifically about customers by name - but we work with nearly all the leading manufacturers of consumer products worldwide and at quite a detailed engineering level.

Charles Prince

I'm very, very pleased with our accomplishments and our financial performance. While I don't expect a quick turn in the U.S. consumer business, I do expect better results in the future.

In each of these businesses, you didn't have to scratch far into the pool to find consumer frustration.

In enterprises, this is starting to happen now, but in consumer side I would not expect a large uptake at least for a year.

In emerging markets, consumers and operators want mobiles that meet specific performance requirements while exceeding expectations for quality, reliability and design,

Jack Valenti

In the last several years, piracy has been the dominant issue that has consumed my life,

In the first quarter of 2006, emerging markets and consumer demand in the mature regions were the major growth engines on a worldwide basis. Mobile demand remains strong worldwide, but in the U.S. desktop consumer market demand increased in response to renewed price competition.

Bill Thomas

In the face of layoffs, tumbling corporate profits, falling stock markets and shakier consumer confidence, no doubt remains that this legislation is needed.

Intel's pre-announcement goes a long way to explaining softness in the DRAM market. PCs consume well over one-half of all DRAMs.

Intel's financial position and status as the semiconductor bellwether may be in jeopardy if it fails to find strategic opportunities in other faster growing markets such as communications and consumer electronics.

Daniel Yergin

In real terms, consumers today are paying considerably less for gasoline than they did during World War I.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.

Innovation happens in the consumer space much more quickly. For a lot of reasons, applications that are delivered to users in the consumer space have a much higher degree of focus on the end-user experience.

In reality, it won't matter as much because other elements like spending and consumer sentiment look good and that will keep the upward pressure on interest rates.

In our view, we're going to have another down leg here because of the consumer. If you keep laying people off, that doesn't bode well for future consumer purchases. We have a negative savings rate and we no longer have the gains from the portfolios which were increasing wealth.

Clearly, these headlines will assuage some of the fears of a consumer collapse, and they mean the Fed will wait till the meeting before easing again. We still look for at least a 25-basis-point easing on Jan. 31.

Clearly, malls continue to struggle. Consumers are focused on easy in and easy out.

High prices are eating into consumer demand, and the focus is on gasoline because of the upcoming driving season.

Higher energy prices are (affecting) the economy - and it's a big deal. It's putting a squeeze on consumers and Corporate America.

Higher crude oil prices and other factors mean consumers are in for another year of price volatility.

High-definition plus today's DVD equals good enough, ... It has been and continues to be so ugly that consumers are going to stay away.

But I think the underlying trend in terms of consumer spending and overall economic spending is actually up.

CCF will provide a single unified portal, taking one, two, three, ten or 15 presentation layers and consume them into CCF.

Peter D. Mitchell

But, there's a difference between doing it naturally and making a concerted effort to be more consumer oriented. You realize 85 percent of consumer purchases is made by women. If you're going to be consumer driven, the first group you have to identify with is women.

This increase shortchanges American consumers and national security because automakers already have the technology to raise fuel economy much more significantly.