Top 20 Consumer Spending Quotes
#1. Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.
Alex Berenson
#2. In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.
Evan Davis
#3. Halloween will be a slam-dunk for merchants despite the weakening consumer spending trends.
Richard Hastings
#4. The way China is looking to boost consumer spending is astounding. They are going to boost the minimum wage by 13 percent a year every year for five years ... I don't know if people realize how dramatic that is.
William Fung
#5. The Stock Market was down today. Two major businesses declared bankruptcy, consumer spending is at an all time low - in other words, Bush is back on the job.
Jay Leno
#6. If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America.
Wilbur Ross
#7. Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending ... when women do better, economies do better.
Christine Lagarde
#8. Consumer spending is now plunging at serious-recession rate ... even if the rescue now in train succeeds in unfreezing credit markets, the real economy has immense downward momentum. In addition to financial rescues, we need major stimulus programs.
Paul Krugman
#9. The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.
Vince Cable
#10. I think it was seen as a symptom that the Chinese leadership may be really scared about their economy.Why would you want to depend more on exports if you're a country that has a stated policy of relying less on exports and more on consumer spending, domestic spending?
David Wessel
#11. Four types of psychological distance can separate you from your goals: social (between yourself and other people), temporal (between the present and the future), spatial (between your physical location and faraway places), and experiential (between imagining something and experiencing it).
Anonymous
#13. Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches the television.
Germaine Greer
#14. Health care's like any other product or service: if the consumer is in charge of spending his money on it, then the market will make sure that it is affordable.
Rush Limbaugh
#15. I also saw a huge expansion of the Internet, with many major corporations, afraid of being left behind, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop World Wide Web sites in a frantic scramble to reach the vast new consumer market of Web use
Dave Barry
#16. The entire world economy rests on the consumer;
if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have
on things he doesn't need
we're done for.
Bill Bonner
#17. The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.
Joseph Conrad
#18. No-one works for money alone and tapping into what people want from their careers and what they have to offer is essential.
Ricardo Semler
#19. Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases ... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure, and that fear of failure ran a strong second.
Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
#20. If your stature were an illness, it seems that the Centipede dispenses medicine to make you well.
Cheshire Cat
