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Wages are 70 percent of the cost of production. That puts pressure on the cost structure of business, and the propensity is to increase consumer prices.

With the explosion of digital entertainment choices, consumers will need simple, easy ways to locate the content they want and easily play it when they want.

With the tide turning on job growth, consumer sentiment going into the holidays is far better than last year, even if it's not quite happy days are here again.

We've done a lot of research on how to price products, and consumers are telling us they're willing to pay $10 to $15 more for high-definition services.

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

While everybody is very happy with the performance of the economy under Greenspan, it's come at quite a price. We have a negative savings rate. The consumer has been out spending his and her income, partly supported by an increase in housing prices, where people had to pull a lot of the equity out of their home. Well they can't do that again.

While consumers may be a little leery of white, they don't need to be. What we're seeing is a very soft and romantic white, many times even bordering on ecru or a faded, old garment you had in white and then you go back to it and it's taken on a patina.

We're delighted that the FDA has moved forward at all. The worst thing for manufacturers and consumers is limbo.

We're definitely going to see a very strong first quarter. It looked like consumers were hibernating in December, and all they needed was an excuse to go on a spending spree. The weather provided that.

We expect a couple of very rough months for consumers spending.

We really underestimated the impact of consumers sitting on the sidelines and not getting their hands on the next-generation 360 console.

John Garamendi

Well, what's the title insurance going to cost? Consumers can do that, but they don't ask.

We get requests all the time from consumers and they want us to sell everything from catnip to high-end automobiles,

We aren't trying to push them out; they are trying to push us out. The more people ensuring there is not discrimination in consumer lending is what we want, not fewer.

We haven't raised our rates since 1992. In that time, the consumer price index has increased by 53 percent; but we have kept our rates steady over that time because we have managed costs.

Victor Koo

Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.

The problems are really isolated to the consumer end of the PC market in Europe, and that's being reflected in Dell and Gateway. We downgraded Intel this morning, but the stock's fall has factored in most of the revenue shortfall.

We are demystifying the relationship between consumers and online services,

Revenues and net income for the quarter were negatively impacted primarily by lower motor home deliveries as a result of lower consumer confidence, which in our opinion is due mainly to the increase in fuel prices.

Retail sales numbers were stronger than expected, and that shows that consumer are still spending, and I think that is weighing on the market today and it should. But it's not weighing on the Nasdaq, where you're seeing those really good earnings reports. People really regard tech as the place to make money.

Michael Penn

Retail sales have shown tentative signs of a modest recovery from weak levels, but in our view a continuing threat remains the weakness of the labor market ... which may slow the pace of consumer spending.

Right now, consumers have to hunt for privacy documents, and that can sometimes be scary when they see all they will have to read and sort through. Hopefully this will be a way they can see easily how a site matches their personal preferences.

Pessimism about New Zealand's short-term economic prospects and wariness about big spending commitments underlie the fall in consumer confidence.

One of the most important keys to success in these markets is to offer attractive, reliable and easy-to-use mobile phones that are specifically designed to meet the unique needs of consumers in new growth markets.

We have already started to see some consumer resistance on high oil prices and this is obviously going to increase, and it will hurt consumer spending.

We can throw variable pricing in and we can raise prices of a hit song, but it doesn't mean consumers will buy. They have an alternative - get songs for free.

Meg Whitman

We have tremendous momentum in our flagship business. Our customers now transact well over $200 million in gross merchandise sales per month, making this the most vibrant consumer e-commerce site on the entire Internet.

Meg Whitman

We have tremendous momentum in our flagship business, ... Our customers now transact well over $200 million in gross merchandise sales per month, making this the most vibrant consumer e-commerce site on the entire Internet.

You do have a defensive consumer. If the consumer is very nervous and uncertain about what is going to be happening, you don't know how they're going to react.

Protect the consumer by owning the product all the way from the soil to the table.

We are seeing good income growth and consistently good job growth, so the consumer remains in relatively solid shape. The economy is currently experiencing a nice, steady, solid momentum, the kind that can continue for an extended period.

We are 15 years away from the peak ... The last (commodities cycle) peak was in 1975 ... Since then the system has mostly been consumer and technology driven.

We are responding to what consumers told us they want.