Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our survey results reinforce our outlook for a continued slowdown in e-commerce sales. At this early juncture of the holiday season, consumers are not shifting a significant share of spending online from offline.

(Our goal is) not sacrificing taste for health and making sure the consumer has great food items that they won't pay a lot of money for while still enjoying it at a low caloric rate.

Our goal here is to provide low prices on high-quality products and excellent services to consumers in Massachusetts.

Kevin Conroy

Our goal for 2006 is to deliver as good an experience for video search as consumers have come to expect in text search.

Our crash test ratings are immensely popular already. The stars are easy to understand and consumers in our focus group overwhelmingly wanted us to use the same star system for our new ratings.

Overall, it is disappointing for February. It?s not that consumers have stopped shopping; it is just that they?re slowing down.

Bruce Bartlett

Overall, I think what the sales number is telling us is that the consumer is starting to take up some of the slack we're seeing in the trade sector and inventories.

Overall, today's data lend tentative support to our view that the consumer spending slowdown has further to run.

Overall, this can be viewed as more evidence that the consumer is hanging in well despite the run-up in oil prices and growing equity market volatility.

Michael Penn

Overall, the picture for the consumer in the U.K. does remain quite weak.

Michael Penn

Over all, the picture for the consumer in the U.K. does remain quite weak.

George Fisher

Our U.S. consumer market share remains on track, with volume share down less than one percentage point for the quarter, but unchanged year to date. We fully expect to meet our strategic goal of at least holding share for the full year, while improving the quality of our product mix toward the premium end.

Charles Prince

Our U.S. consumer franchise continues to face a challenging interest rate and pricing environment. I feel very good about how we're expanding internationally.

Outside of energy, the consumer is fine. That's why growth this year will be weaker than last year, and it will be weaker next year than this year.

I think they're not telling the consumer the whole story.

Ron Paul

I think they are a treat. There are enough consumers who are willing to treat themselves frequently or once in a while.

It is a way to help consumers find not only what they're looking for, but content they may not known they're looking for, other programming we offer as part of the service.

I think the risk is the downside, not the upside, ... I think the markets are fairly nervous about the prospects for growth. They're going to be dissecting the number. If we have slower than expected consumer spending and stronger than expected inventory growth, that's not going to bode well for the next quarter or so.

I think there's going to be a lot of work for consumer advocates and lawyers as the new e-signature law unfolds.

I think the real story last month was that in spite of higher interest rates, exploding energy costs and debt levels, the American consumer rolls on.

I think the reaction on the consumer side will be relatively mild.

Martin Jacques

Just as the Japanese pioneered a new form of manufacturing - lean production and quite new standards of reliability - so Tata, too, is embracing new forms of manufacture in order to revolutionise the price to meet the consumer needs of a poor, developing country.

Japan's overall consumer spending is pretty firm as a trend because wages are rising.

Japanese consumers are important to us. They are a key to our success.

I think consumers want to see a choice.

I think consumers are more cautious, and I think the retailers have kept inventories well under control.

I think consumers are looking for online solutions, not only with taxes, but for all their financial solutions.

I think consumers are demanding that we get less processed in general in everything that we do.

People like lower prices if they can get the same quality, but convincing Japanese consumers of the quality takes a lot of time.

Sports footwear usually is also the first place urban consumers will spend money to endorse a celebrity. As we've already seen, people will pay over $100 for the G-Unit or an S-Carter Reebok if it creates the right image for them.

That could really crimp consumer spending and hold back economic growth.

My resolution is to work hard to protect consumers and tenants in 2006.

Hugh Johnson

Long term interest rates are higher now than they were in the second and third quarters, and debt levels are higher too. Yes, consumer spending will continue to expand, but it will be slower.