Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ford must design and manufacture vehicles that consumers want to purchase without huge incentives.

Donald Wildmon

Ford has the right to financially support homosexual groups promoting homosexual marriage, but at the same time consumers have a right not to purchase automobiles made by Ford.

For consumers (with a single router and wireless card) it is not a big issue, but the enterprise will wait for standards. Most enterprise customers wouldn't deploy an IEEE 802.11n product until it is ratified or very stable.

For consumer spending to be sustained at any meaningful pace you need a more substantial improvement in payrolls.

I'm encouraged that some issuers are doing this. I think penalty fees are a disingenuous way of making money, ... I'm encouraged the marketplace is responding to pressure from lawsuits and consumer complaints.

Inflation totaled about 4% over the two months, which was largely due to the Artic temperatures, and surge in consumer demand for salt.

Inflation isn't a worry just yet. The consumer is in pretty good form. People are still spending on their credit cards.

That is an issue. We do still expect the U.S. consumer to slow down in the second half of the year, and oil prices can only contribute to that. But there is probably not enough to create significant economic weakness globally.

That's 30 uninterrupted 30-second TV spots. Think how much that would cost on TV, and the difficulty in getting people to watch even one full 30-second ad. To me, that's a much more effective use of marketing dollars if you know your message is in front of the consumer for a much longer and more controlled period of time.

It's not an exact science, but it gives us a gauge in terms of whether the consumer likes or dislikes a record.

It's not a good sign when delinquencies rise, There are enough other positive things in the consumer sector to say this is not a signal for some significant retrenchment ... that could threaten the economy.

Faith Popcorn

Eighty percent of the consumer dollar is controlled by women, and women earn $4.4 trillion a year,

Each survey is just a snapshot in time, so I really don't know if the trend will be sustained and a real upswing in consumer confidence, or if it's a blip.

Everyone is looking for a tax cut, and we have one in the form of a cut on fees. On a day when consumers shop the sales to save, Liberty Tax Service gives them a tax cut of value by slashing their tax prep fees.

Kevin Kolb

Everybody was pushing pretty hard. A lot of consumers got a lot of good deals.

Sue Gardner

Everybody's saying, be skeptical of Wikipedia. That is true. They should also be skeptical of everything. We should all be critical consumers of the media.

The big picture for the consumer still looks good.

No longer will a consumer have to visit multiple Web sites to view all properties for sale.

The reports we released today are two important tools consumers can use in making good decisions,

The report isn't so tame as to deter the Fed from bumping rates another notch, especially with Y2K fears dissipating and consumers showing no signs of fatigue. However, it should ease market fears that the Fed will need to tighten several more times.

The report focuses on prices paid by consumers without insurance and in doing so excludes manufacturer rebates or discounts.

Michael K. Powell

This market is not collapsing. It is not going to fail over time, ... Communications services remain vital to consumers around the globe.

This letter was designed to take money from vulnerable consumers by distressing, frightening and misleading them.

This is where one is trying to get to. And the trouble is, in a lot of the experiments, the consumer is not understanding where this thing might lead,

This is what the Federal Reserve has been warning about for a long time -- we will still see consumer spending growth, but it will be more moderate than before, ... It's a retrenchment of consumer spending growth from blistering levels.

This is the low point. Consumer prices will go back up. We've been saying this for months.

There's a lot of innovation around products that fall under the umbrella of 'good for you'. Increasingly that's the direction the consumer is moving.

There's been a lot of speculation as to how consumers will react to higher gas prices, ... I think consumers really took us by surprise.

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.