Famous Quotes & Sayings

Consumer spending will remain strong in the first quarter following the final quarter of last year. Supporting this is improving employment and wages.

David Cohen

Consumer spending, together with domestic investment spending, are leaving the Japanese economy a little less dependent on exports. Over the past decade, Japan has been notoriously unable to develop a self-sustaining recovery. We're gradually getting out of that rut.

Consumer spending remains the mainstay of this weak economic recovery. With tax cuts enacted, the consumer is likely to continue hanging in there. But a real recovery, including a slowdown in layoffs and the opening of new jobs, is far more dependent on recovery in (business) investment than on stronger consumption growth.

Consumer spending numbers continue to be very good and manufacturing continues to surprise to the upside, which all suggests the economy has a lot of momentum right now.

Consumer spending has remained relatively robust into 2006.

consumer spending has not been dented by the hurricane-inspired rise in gasoline prices and fears of higher home heating oil bills.

Consumer spending has been surprisingly resilient, and I don't expect any kind of a drop-off. But, at the same time, this is a softer report than we've been expecting, given retail sales in April.

Consumer spending has become a credible engine of growth for the Japanese economy. Wages and incomes are increasing, job security is improving. It's a virtuous circle.

Mark Zandi

Consumer spending growth will moderate, but it won't impede the current pace of economic expansion.

Consumers need to look at all three of those to help lower their risk of cardiovascular disease.

Consumers need to develop a new set of shopping skills for shopping safely on the Internet.

Consumers need to be notified when and what location information is collected,

Consumers might think (restocking fees) are unfair. As long as they feel it's unfair, they'll be less likely to go back to that store.

Michael Gregory

Consumers may be wobbly, owing to high energy prices, a vulnerable housing sector and increasingly uncertain medical and pension benefits, but there is nothing like the whiff of solid job growth to keep them on their feet.

Consumers look around and see (the Home store's) $1,299 sofa and see others for $699 or $799 at other stores and it's a reality check. I find after the hoopla is over, they become retail museums.

Consumers like this format. It tends to become a destination-oriented trip for people.

Consumers have suffered enough from tight fuel supplies and soaring prices at the pump, while the petroleum industry continues to reap record corporate profits.

Consumers have stagnant real wages and they are getting hit with the shocks of higher energy prices. This is not a good combination for the overstretched consumer.

Consumers have spent the weekend with their family and they've been in the stores. They now have a holiday list going. And today is the first day that people are back at work in front of their computers,

Consumers haven't seen the worst of it yet.

Consumers have moved up to products that they perceive as being higher quality.

Consumers have many options for entertainment and leisure time. Theater operators must continue to innovate and to create the optimal experience.

Consumers have hung in there and done better than people expected, It's really going to be more about businesses.

Consumers have decided what the real video-on-demand is, and that's owning it.

Consumers have been on a shopping frenzy for so long, they may be trying now to 'pace themselves' in preparation for the upcoming holiday shopping season.

Consumers have been and continue to be on a spending spree and that has benefited most retailers, ... The universe has been very retail friendly.

Craig Allen

Consumers have become very educated about the proper way to store wines. People are entertaining at home more, and so residential wine coolers and cellars have become very popular . . . in the last five years.

Consumers have become increasingly pessimistic about their future income and job prospects, and as a result will continue to slow the pace of their spending during months ahead.

Richard Hastings

Consumers have a way of pulling it together for the holidays.

Consumers have a strong reason to procrastinate, ... There will be more and more deals and bargains, and everybody knows it.

Consumers have a right to get their correct change.

Consumers have a lot on their mind ? rising interest rates, a cooling housing market. They're riddled with debt and the holiday season thus far is shaping out to be just okay, not exceptional, not terrible but okay.

Consumers have a lot going for them in this holiday shopping season.