Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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,

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 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.

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.