Famous Quotes & Sayings

If spending numbers looked like sentiment numbers, we'd be back in recession, ... The good news is that consumers are complaining, but they're spending.

Gray Davis

There is no easy solution, ... But, if I have to use the power of eminent domain to prevent generators from driving consumers into the dark and utilities into bankruptcy, then that's what I'll do.

John Nolan

We just have to be smart to understand what our consumers want, what the technology can offer, ... In that sense, we're ready for the Internet to be a disruptive technology and completely disrupt our normal volumes. How much and to what extent remain to be seen. But it's also a supportive technology; we see tremendous opportunities in being able to reach more customers in a much richer fashion through the Internet.

When the markets get frothy they can disappear. When the markets are frothy is exactly when consumers need them.

We've seen a couple of trends. Consumers are more sophisticated than they were 10 or 15 years ago.

Moving to a file-and-use system of rate regulation puts South Dakota in the mainstream of states and consumers will continue to enjoy the same strong protections they did before.

Media companies' hit-focused marketing did not emerge in a vacuum. It reflects how consumers make choices. The truth is that consumers prefer blockbusters.

Bill Evans

Of course, the positives for consumers were considerable.

Byron Dorgan

None of us knows much about pricing, but we see the pain of consumers and we see the gains of the companies.

One would think that consumers would want to see someone in. But when push comes to shove, the consumers want their World Perks miles, and they will support Northwest.

Only a month ago, I felt we could see the first negative selling season in over 20 years, but the drop in gas prices has given consumers a newfound shopping spirit that should sustain them throughout the month of December.

Maria Cantwell

My constituents are frustrated. Consumers want to know what we're going to do about this. Consumers definitely want to know what's going on.

More importantly, they've done it in a way that seems to be fairly understandable by consumers so you don't have to have a whole IT department in your house to make this stuff work.

Monkeys resonate with consumers because we can all relate to office situations that are difficult.

Now we're starting to see that wash out, and we're seeing that the labor market really has been gradually strengthening for most of the first half of this year. And this is fundamentally good news for consumers and for the health of the recovery going forward.

Obviously, consumers just ignored all the dire warnings and kept on spending.

Miracle cures, once thought to be laughed out of existence, have found a new medium. Consumers now spend millions on unproven, deceptively marketed products on the Web.

Many consumers have made a significant investment in DVD libraries.

Many consumers have discovered that customer service can be a misnomer. The first person you encounter on the phone maze may not be the most helpful.

Many consumers are uncomfortable trying to figure out how to print envelopes on their printers. And the alternative of printing the postage on the letter itself requires a window envelope, which most consumers are not using.

Many consumers are moving away from three core meals because they are skipping meals out of necessity. Some consumers are instead eating only when hungry, and eating more frequent meals of smaller portion size.

Senator Seward thinks it's particularly wrong for consumers to be paying so much tax on gas when they're already paying record profits to the big oil companies.

Virginia Postrel

Just as producers often give consumers things they want but didn't think to ask for, consumers sometimes come up with surprising uses for new inventions. When a new product appears, it can uncover dissatisfactions and desires no one knew were there.

Sandro Veronesi

Italian women are among the largest group of European consumers of hosiery.

We are grateful to local consumers for their increased consumption of ostrich meat, which expanded the local market considerably,

Yves Behar

Consumers want products that tell stories, have magic, and inspire.

P. J. O'Rourke

If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed.

Kate Warne

Where consumers are likely to feel the pinch more is at the pump, where gasoline prices are likely to rise.

With consumers having ever more choice, corporations must invest more and more in courting public opinion.

We want to become a destination for content producers and consumers -- especially user-generated content.

This spring home-buying season promises to be like no other before it, because it will be the first time consumers have these incredible tools literally at their fingertips to help them perform their research and ultimately find their next home.

We ... would like consumers to know it's false and very misleading.

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going, ... We have to observe what's going down, see the trends, look at every vibration on the market, prepare the technology and jump when consumers start to think one way or the other.