Quotes About Consumers

#1. Early access is very valuable, there are a lot of consumers who would love to see something early.

Jason Kilar

#2. Show your kids that needs and wants are two different things. The best way to teach our kids to be smart consumers - and savvy savers - is to model good behavior for them.

Jean Chatzky

#3. We have become a society of indulgent consumers resulting in rapidly increasing debt both personally and as a nation.

L.G. Durand

#4. The naturally colored products aren't as bright as the synthetically colored products, they're not as attractive to consumers. But, you know, it's the kind of thing that consumers simply would get used to very quickly.

Michael F. Jacobson

#5. As the knowledge around personalized medicine continues to grow, consumers should expect their healthcare providers to begin to incorporate genetic information into their treatments and preventative care.

Anne Wojcicki

#6. Our elected officials would do well to remember that the most prosperous countries are those that allow consumers - not governments - to direct the use of resources. Allowing the government to pick winners and losers hurts almost everyone, especially our poorest citizens.

Charles Koch

#7. Creating Lovemarks is all about the ability to understand consumers' dreams, to know what they want and when they want it and to create great experiences that make your brand a part of their lives.

Kevin Roberts

#8. The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

Barry Diller

#9. Play, as a consumers' good, is subject to the law of marginal utility, as are all goods, and the time spent in play will be balanced against the utility to be derived from other obtainable goods.

Murray Rothbard

#10. Together with the social responsibility of businesses, there is also the social responsibility of consumers. Every person ought to have the awareness that 'purchasing is always a moral-and not simply an economic-act.

Pope Francis

#11. Make your company stock a consumer product. When consumers buy stock in your company, they'll never buy a competitive product. You've linked their financial future to yours.

Faith Popcorn

#12. Right now we think that rates will stay low, that you'll be able to get a mortgage below seven percent and that's kicked off a refinance boom that's going to put more money in the pockets of consumers.

Franklin Raines

#13. If we were all minimalists instead of conspicuous consumers, there would be less demand on the world's resources and we'd have a smaller, less berserk economy. We'd be less likely to harm the only planet we'll ever have, and the super-rich would have fewer ways to exploit us.

Robert Wringham

#14. It is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts consumers, the environment, human health, and peace first.

Dennis Kucinich

#15. If your marketing is not delivering consumers to the cash register with their wallets in their hands to buy your product, don't do it.

Sergio Zyman

#16. That was the day Rehab promised herself she would never bow her head to such gods. She hated them. For all their glittering attraction, she had seen them for what they were. They were consumers of humanity.

Tessa Afshar

#17. Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.

Jennifer Weiner

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

Simon Mainwaring

#19. Well, I think the best form would be to put money directly in the pockets of consumers.

Franklin Raines

#20. We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.

Adyashanti

#21. A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.

Linus Torvalds

#22. It isn't the consumers' job to know what they want.

Steve Jobs

#23. Either we have the government forcing us and telling us what we have to do, where we have to do it and how much we have to pay for it or we put ourselves in charge - we as consumers, as patients.

Paul Ryan

#24. The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about The Dark Knight's dread (that teenage thrall with subversion) inspires their fealty to product.

Armond White

#25. Recycling, packaging, businesses are changing all of those things because that's what consumers want.

Jerry Greenfield

#26. Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers ...

Glenn Reynolds

#27. I founded Minted in 2007 with the desire to use 'crowd-sourcing' to bring designs from the best emerging and independent designers in the world to consumers.

Mariam Naficy

#28. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless.

Noam Chomsky

#29. American consumers are not saying they will not buy GMO foods. What they're saying is "I want to know. I want to know." EU consumers are much happier because they know what they're buying, and they've seen a continued increase in sales.

Peter Shumlin

#30. Internet pharmacies return to consumers the choice promised by supporters of the 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. That law established federal requirements for drug safety and labeling but exempted prescription medicines from the labeling rules.

Virginia Postrel

#31. We do a lot of consumer research. Consumers believe the smartphone will be the remote, meaning that it will orchestrate a lot of things. So maybe you will take your connectivity with you to the car.

Hans Vestberg

#32. Computers are one of the products in the USA that appear to be unregulated by the government which leaves consumers unprotected from flawed devices.

Steven Magee

#33. Both Republicans and Democrats can agree that more choices and lower prices in transportation would benefit consumers. Democrats would consider it 'smart government' and Republicans 'limited government.'

Marvin Ammori

#34. Being able to compete for consumers' attention and dollars over the preciousness of access is a thing of the past. Everyone is using the Internet to globally market a product.

Ted Sarandos

#35. Digital products are, for the most part, services that empower consumers to achieve something that they couldn't do before. Every screen must reflect your value proposition.

Jay Samit

#36. If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But it's also going to be very hard to live the rounded and joyful lives that could be ours. This is a subversive volume in all the best ways!

Bill McKibben

#37. Software is now so complex - requiring so many gazillions of tiny files all over your computer - that most consumers don't want to bother to know what's really going on.

Clive Thompson

#38. Every time a new technology enables more choice, whether it's the VCR or the Internet, consumers clamor for it. Choice is simply what we want and, apparently, what we've always wanted.

Chris Anderson

#39. Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.

Eric Topol

#40. You have to understand as a marketer that consumers are functioning in the age of efficiency.

Mitch Joel

#41. Society has a hyper emphasis on thin, and that trend comes from the consumers - it does not come from the fashion industry. The fashion industry needs to make money; that's what we do. If people said, 'We want a 300 pound purple person,' the first industry to do it would be fashion.

Kelly Cutrone

#42. In the wine world, crusaders would have wine consumers believe that the only wines of merit are something completely indefinable but which they call 'authentic' or 'natural.'

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#43. In China's big cities, American products - say, for instance, Proctor and Gamble shampoos or many other goods - are widely coveted by a lot of Chinese consumers.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#44. Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty.

Robert Mondavi

#45. The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.

Ludwig Von Mises

#46. There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.

Giorgio Armani

#47. Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.

Ingrid Newkirk

#48. The entertainment industry at large has pretty much given away high definition to consumers. They haven't really charged a premium for it on television. That makes consumers more likely to buy Blu-ray but less likely to pay a premium for it.

Michael Lynton

#49. There's a rising tide of environmental awareness and activism among consumers that's going to continue to swell in the 21st century. Smart companies will get ahead of that wave and ride it to success and prosperity. Those that don't are headed for a wipeout.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#50. Let's hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won't buy.

Simon Mainwaring

#51. As president of Common Cause, I joined a coalition of groups ranging from the Christian Coalition to Consumers Union, and we went to Congress with over a million signatures asking that Net Neutrality be made law.

Chellie Pingree

#52. I reject passive consumption. I reject the premise. I will have no passive consumers. Casanova will not stop and explain itself to you. It will not allow you to flip through it while you're dropping a deuce and waiting for Batman to show up.

Matt Fraction

#53. We've taken SMS technology for consumers and improved it.

Jan Koum

#54. The demand for organic food is growing at a remarkable rate. Consumers have made it clear that they want organic produce and every sector of the food chain is responding, with the kind of results we have just seen.

Prince Charles

#55. There is no point in retaining a brand equity if it has no traction with consumers, or has no likelihood of doing so.

Nick Cooper

#56. Letting the free market do whatever it wants. That's not been historically how we grow. We have to invest in education, in rebuilding broadband lines and roads and runways, and it's important that we bring back American manufacturing and regulations to prevent consumers from being cheated.

Barack Obama

#57. When consumers do not take full advantage of efficiency gains, it is because they are weighing other factors that influence their decision making. When the federal government arbitrarily places one of those factors over others, it makes consumers worse off.

Gina McCarthy

#58. Real estate deals a lot with the government. It isn't like manufacturing, logistics, home appliances or the auto sector, which deal with consumers.

Wang Jianlin

#59. 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.

Ted Sarandos

#60. For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing.

Anatoly Chubais

#61. Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.

Jon Johansen

#62. If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.

Satish Kumar

#63. Consumers desiring a better world have already achieved some successes in this regard, helping to transform several industries from the ground up.

Simon Mainwaring

#64. If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.

B.F. Skinner

#65. Production chains, how consumers can drive change: all these things may seem at odds with fashion, but arguably, they're not.

Lily Cole

#66. There's an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what they help to build. But now that many brands are launching community-driven cause marketing campaigns, the challenge becomes what to do next?

Simon Mainwaring

#67. I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation.

John Stossel

#68. We're not citizens anymore. We're consumers. That's what we're called. It's just like being an alcoholic and being in denial that you're an alcoholic. We're in denial that each and every one of us is the problem. And until we face up to that, nothing's going to happen.

Yvon Chouinard

#69. Nerdists, unlike nerds, tend to be creators as much as consumers. They're creative consumers.

Chris Hardwick

#70. These factors include things like the unemployment rate, interest rates, the dollar's strength in the currency market, petroleum prices, and consumers' disposable income. Those

Marc Cosentino

#71. The huge irony is that the more the gospel is offered in consumer terms, the more the consumers are disappointed.

Eugene H. Peterson

#72. As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices.

M.J. Rose

#73. The consumers are asking for, they lose their office. Their task is service to the consumer. Profit and loss are the instruments by means of which the consumers keep a tight rein on all business activities.

Ludwig Von Mises

#74. If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finished.

David Mitchell

#75. Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers

Greg Abbott

#76. If you run a business, put on top your employees, then your consumers, and then your shareholders.

Richard Branson

#77. Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.

Beeban Kidron

#78. The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.

Ludwig Von Mises

#79. Poetic injustice ... having made over Japan in our own image. The Japanese, ... are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in the world.

Mother Jones

#80. Our investigation has found that, unlike traditional fantasy sports, daily fantasy sports companies are engaged in illegal gambling under New York law, causing the same kinds of social and economic harms as other forms of illegal gambling and misleading New York consumers.

Eric Schneiderman

#81. American firms are beginning to reproduce nonsustainable systems, to force the elite of India to become energy consumers of the kind that the U.S. has become. That's what globalization is about: Find markets where you can.

Vandana Shiva

#82. People didn't leave because our downtown lacked trendy cultural amenities. The trendy cultural amenities left because there weren't enough consumers in Middletown to support them.

J.D. Vance

#83. It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.

David Ogilvy

#84. I am determined to use competition law to protect European industry and consumers.

Neelie Kroes

#85. An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers.

Martin Feldstein

#86. I remember when AOL was small and they were growing like mad. Consumers were coming on in droves because they made it easy to connect to the Internet. That was the single biggest innovation of AOL; when grandmas were signing up, AOL had arrived.

Ram Shriram

#87. I think people should be consumers of journalism.

Andrew Vachss

#88. When I look at the chaotic and volatile debate right now, both in Germany and around the world, my impression and concern is that the daily barrage of proposals and political statements is making markets and consumers even more nervous. Still, Brussels is pressing for a joint European approach.

Peer Steinbruck

#89. It's crucial to keep in mind that the hundreds of millions of dollars now spent on prescription drug advertisements are ultimately paid for by consumers in the form a higher drug prices.

Michael K. Simpson

#90. Pressed by the Obama administration and consumers, Kraft, Nestle, Pepsi, Campbell and General Mills, among others, have begun to trim the loads of salt, sugar and fat in many products.

Michael Moss

#91. Our elected leaders treat us as children or consumers - ideally both, monstrous in our appetites, unable to discriminate between our wants and our needs.

Philip Connors

#92. The broken consumer credit market had to be repaired by making sure that consumers had the right information and could use it effectively. That meant consolidating the bloated patchwork of ineffective agencies and regulations so that a single agency could act as a voice for consumers.

Elizabeth Warren

#93. What is the "Once upon a time" of your brand story? Ask yourself this: "How does what I'm building help consumers close the gap between who they are today and who they want to be tomorrow?

Laura Busche

#94. Brand and product don't compete. Brand is product, and everything else conforming to the unique story that consumers create when they think of you.

Laura Busche

#95. Increasingly, consumers don't search for products and services. Rather, services come to their attention via social media.

Erik Qualman

#96. The marketing people are always talking about something called 'consumers'. I have this image of a fat little man in baggy Bermuda shorts, a Hawaiian shirt, and a straw hat with beer-can openers dangling from it, clutching fistfuls of dollars.

Robert James Waller

#97. It's certainly sobering to think that British consumers waste roughly a quarter of the food we buy. Or to put it another way, we funnel £12 billion a year from the supermarket through to our rubbish tips, costing each household an average of £480.

Tristram Stuart

#98. I find it ironic that now water is more expensive than music. On the one hand, record companies can't go crying when they've gouged consumers for decades, charging exorbitant prices for CDs that cost 29 cents to make. On the other hand, when music is free, musicians starve.

Tom Morello

#99. Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or death; and play a decisive role in whether a family or employer can afford healthcare.

Timothy Murphy

#100. Recession-resistant development produces things people need. Unsustainable growth churns out tinsel products that consumers have to be seduced into buying - until times get tough, when they quickly give them up.

Donella Meadows