Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Nelson

We've been working on a mandate for about eight years and were unsuccessful. We've come up with a plan that's much better. It gives consumers choice.

Anne Sweeney

I think we all realize the consumer has taken control, and they're not giving it back. So as every new technology comes forward, we have to figure out how to integrate it.

Wal-Mart is a litmus test for the economy with respect to consumer spending. One thing I'll be interested in hearing about is the sales outlook, and especially whether or not deflation is a concern.

The question is not whether the consumer is slowing. From the Fed's perspective, it's whether the consumer is slowing down fast enough to keep inflation in check,

David Byrne

The proposals are essential for the enhancement of consumer confidence,

Those were three lousy numbers from an economic perspective. There is the intimation of a slowdown led by the housing market and if the consumer rolls over, then we have a problem.

Those options for consumers are superior to what we have.

This stronger consumer sentiment may yet translate into solid core consumer spending for the holiday season.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.

I think we do need to move very swiftly in creating value for consumers and reacting to the economics,

I think we can say we have turned the corner. Investments are picking up, and consumers are starting to spend money.

Ted Sarandos

I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix.

Bernie Sanders

States used to protect consumers from predatory lenders, but strong state usury laws were obliterated by a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision.

We still haven't released details on how the rollover predictability ratings will be conducted but that is imminent. It's part of our consumer safety information program that will be expanding to eventually include brake and lighting performance.

We still expect that the consumer slowdown will prompt more interest rate cuts,

Tomorrow's employment report is critical for the market. Investors are hanging on every number that we get. Anything to do with consumer spending is key because consumers have been supporting the economy.

We are going for number one in the consumer market.

We're excited about the possibilities of on-demand entertainment, and eager to play a key role in providing it to consumers - with exceptional reliability.

Mark Foley

We're enabling the next generation of consumer electronics.

We should still have a pretty good quarter for consumer spending. January retail sales, excluding autos, were very strong.

Wal-Mart got the traffic, but not the margins, and that will raise questions about fourth-quarter earnings for retail in particular and the consumer sector in general. That's giving you some early caution.

James Lee

Wall Street is looking for small players on the Internet who are focused on a particular consumer segment. A dominant niche site can generate repeat visits from customers that are loyal to the site.

Stephen Elop

Every time a consumer walks into a retail store, experiences the Nokia experience for the first time and purchases that product. Those are the moments where you say, 'We've hit it. We've nailed it.'

David Brown

What leads the U.K. economy out of weak growth is generally the consumer, and the consumer is not in that fit state to pump the economy to 2.5% or 3% growth.

With employment gains non-existent, income growth has slowed. As households also become more judicious in taking on more debt, consumer spending will remain soft.

With crude prices forecast to remain strong for the remainder of the year, consumers can expect, on average, higher pump prices than last year.

With consumers not spending, is it any surprise that the manufacturing sector has stumbled?

While information technology products will continue to be the largest market sectors for semiconductors, consumer products will be the major growth-drivers in the years ahead,

Gary Shapiro

While home entertainment continues to be an important segment of the consumer electronics industry, home information has become the largest and fastest growing product group.

Without the early-termination clause, people would be gaming the system. People would walk away with a $500 phone for virtually nothing. An early-termination fee allows the wireless provider to recoup the costs of giving a phone to a consumer for a steep discount. Without it, you simply have an economic model that doesn't work.

Without the consumer Vista push for the 2006 holidays selling season, we think that discrete graphics processing unit sales could suffer slightly.

Richard Gordon

With the consumer in control, in order to stimulate demand you have to keep pressure on pricing, which is likely to have the long-term effect of keeping growth rates in the single-digit region forever more.

Richard Blumenthal

We need to develop a strategy that offers consumers the most immediate kind of remedy to the monopolistic power that Microsoft has misused, and to prevent Microsoft from repeating what seems to be the same kind of misconduct.