Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

The introduction of the FP93GX represents an exciting breakthrough, not only for the development of global digital lifestyle and consumer market but also in terms of efforts to meet increasing local demands for high performance digital infrastructure. Developers have addressed the issues of performance and we are very excited over the impact this product will have.

The Internet reduces the cost of gathering information about consumers to practically zero, ... Sending a piece of direct mail to a household costs about one dollar, so no one is going to send you 10,000 pieces of mail, but the cost of contacting you in the online world is virtually zero.

The losses could significantly impact the future of e-commerce if online consumers become so frustrated they revert to shopping at traditional bricks-and-mortar stores and decide not to purchase online.

The main story of 2005 is one of the growing importance of consumers in driving sales of semiconductors.

The job market is firm, the outlook for hiring remains firm and hourly wages will pick up. Wages will grow enough to keep consumer spending up.

The consumer can't be sure of what he is getting or from where, and there is no relationship with a pharmacist who can review the entire profile of drugs someone is taking.

Paul Walsh

The consumer anticipates the store will be stocked.

The dirty little secret of the industry has been that 40% of consumers don't file the rebate and that 20% bungle the paperwork.

A much stronger-than-expected showing -- the late September incentives after a poor start to the month had a large impact. This should ensure firm Q3 consumer spending data.

All of this was public information; it was just really hard for the consumer to get.

All the focus is on the core number. The Fed said yesterday that energy has not worked its way down to core consumer prices.