Buying Power Quotes

#1. The women are at an advantage - we represent the buying power in this country.

Sandra Lee

#2. There is no technical reason why we could not feed a world of nine billion people. Hunger is a matter of buying power, not of shortages.

Louise Fresco

#3. China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day.

Bernard Arnault

#4. Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.

Henry Ford

#5. African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perry's career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently.

Lynn Nottage

#6. More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.

Simon Mainwaring

#7. I hope they can see that as a consumer, if they express themselves, they may make an impact and leverage their impact on the brands, and the brands can leverage their buying power on tens of thousands of polluters - suppliers - in China.

Ma Jun

#8. Kellogg's and Campbell's moats have also shrunk due to the increased buying power of supermarkets and companies like Wal-Mart. The muscle power of Wal-Mart and Costco has increased dramatically.

Charlie Munger

#9. At a rate of 3 percent inflation, the buying power of unprotected income plunges by half over a 20-year period.

Jonathan Peterson

#10. I think the big force is going to be consumer buying power.

Roy Romer

#11. Until Americans feel that their core asset - their homes - are stabilized, they are not going to have the animal spirits and they will continue to have less buying power.

Kevin O'Leary

#12. It's super important that people use their significant buying power to pull companies like Ferrari and show them there is a market for sustainable fuel. So many other car companies would take notice if Ferrari made headway on this measure.

Petter Stordalen

#13. I'm an economist by training. And I know that what works is a permanent increase in buying power.

Sarah Steelman

#14. We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#15. Fear drives the wretched to prayer

Seneca The Younger

#16. The lesson: The power of your story isn't just a way to connect to your ultimate consumer but is also a means of making you attractive to potential partners who want to attach themselves to something deeper than buying and selling.

Blake Mycoskie

#17. He dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips ... her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#18. Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.

David Korten

#19. We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

Cornel West

#20. See here, if a simple act of kindness or generosity, such as buying a loaf of bread for some poor working women, can mean that wholesale death and destruction will be avoided why, a man would be a monster who had it in his power to alleviate all that suffering yet stood by and did nothing.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#21. To me, Los Angeles and California and executive power are about big, open warehouse buildings. Tech companies are buying oversized buildings, because they project growth immediately.

James Pearse Connelly

#22. I talk about reducing our dependence on foreign oil. If we're buying electricity from a solar-thermal plant in Tijuana, I'm not sure we should say that's evil. If we are buying wind power from Alberta, I don't have a huge objection to that.

Jay Inslee

#23. Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.

Maria Bartiromo

#24. He was one of those people who completely changes when they smile. Like the sun had come out.

Caroline Green

#25. I know that spot," Puck said, standing several feet back from the Iron knight. "A woman with crazy long hair used to live on the top floor, but it's empty now.

Julie Kagawa

#26. Whatever you do, whatever you're working with, whether it's manual work or talking to people or buying or selling, every little thing encompasses the power and simplicity of presence.

Eckhart Tolle

#27. Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here.

Gray Davis

#28. Children have deep devotion to life and this devotion is beautifully expressed through the free play. Objects of play should be as simple as possible, to allow the power of imagination to flourish. Buying 'perfect', expensive toys, rob the children of an ability to see beauty in a stone or a shell.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#29. Regressives say small businesses would be hurt by a higher marginal tax. Don't believe this, either. Only just over 1 percent of small-business owners earn enough to be taxed at the top rate - and that's just on the portion of their incomes exceeding $379,000. The

Robert B. Reich