Quotes About Consumers

#1. Consumers want products that tell stories, have magic, and inspire. - Author: Yves Behar

#2. The first thing I feel like we have the potential to do is to deliver to consumers more roots to their home. - Author: Michael K. Powell

#3. They don't want art that might actually change the community. They just want consumers. They don't want people to manufacture things. They'll do the manufacturing, and they just need people to buy it, need youth to buy it. - Author: Malik Yusef

#4. Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers. - Author: Charles Koch

#5. If you want to establish a clear image in the minds of consumers, you first need a clear image in your own mind. - Author: Sergio Zyman

#6. Comcast NBCUniversal has an incredible array of brands and ways to deliver those brands and experiences for consumers. - Author: Brian L. Roberts

#7. It's not business to consumer, it's not business to business, it's people to people - Author: Brian Solis

#8. Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit. - Author: Jeffrey D. Sachs

#9. The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful. - Author: David Boies

#10. what consumers are willing to pay can easily be manipulated, and this means that consumers don't in fact have a good handle on their own preferences - Author: Dan Ariely

#11. The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace. - Author: David Ogilvy

#12. Environmentalists blame the farmers for overdosing with pesticides, and the farmers blame the consumers for demanding blemish-free fruit. - Author: William Alexander

#13. It's silly for me to raise expectations too much, but I think I'm right on the basic trend, which is shifting power to consumers. - Author: Steve Case

#14. People no longer want to see themselves primarily as consumers, but as activists. - Author: Mal Fletcher

#15. We used to think that the enterprise was the hardest customer to satisfy, but we were wrong. It turns out, consumers are harder than the enterprise because the consumer will not give you a second chance. - Author: Eric Schmidt

#16. Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy. - Author: Christopher Lasch

#17. Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers. - Author: Margaret Chan

#18. So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption. - Author: Sherwood Boehlert

#19. Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment in which getting the order out the door is the only thing that matters. - Author: James Surowiecki

#20. On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by maintaining such a balance between produce and consumption as will give the greatest exchangeable value to the results of the national industry. - Author: Thomas Malthus

#21. We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers. - Author: Daryl Hannah

#22. Selfish Dreamscapes
If you have a dream, as you should, relish in being selfish about building every passionate aspect of it. The crowd of spectators and consumers will still be exactly where you left them ... gossiping about everybody else's dream but their own. - Author: T.F. Hodge

#23. With consumers buying two smartphones for every desktop computer they purchase, the demands, challenges and opportunities of the mobile space are reshaping our assumptions about design and user behaviour. - Author: Jeffrey Zeldman

#24. Weight loss programs and health clubs have an ethical and legal obligation to adequately disclose details about program costs before customers sign a contract. They should also clearly explain how the program works and what is expected so that consumers can make an informed choice whether to join. - Author: Bill Vaughan

#25. If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity will open up. - Author: C. K. Prahalad

#26. The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research - yet nonetheless had an amazing sense of what consumers actually wanted. - Author: James Surowiecki

#27. Because financially capable consumers ultimately contribute to a stable economic and financial system as well as improve their own financial situations, it's clear that the Federal Reserve has a significant stake in financial education. - Author: Ben Bernanke

#28. The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers ... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment. - Author: Michael Schudson

#29. If the people are led to believe that scarce resources are best channeled in a direction that producers and consumers would not choose on their own, the result must necessarily be central planning. - Author: Llewellyn Rockwell

#30. American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage. - Author: Alan Greenspan

#31. Persuasion has become a kind of force. The more the advertiser knows about what consumers want, and the more desires the product and packaging seek to fulfill, the more coercive the force. - Author: Virginia Postrel

#32. Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies at reasonably low prices. - Author: James Surowiecki

#33. With consumers having ever more choice, corporations must invest more and more in courting public opinion. - Author: Noreena Hertz

#34. Companies are very, very good - better than consumers themselves - at knowing what consumers are actually craving. - Author: Charles Duhigg

#35. I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers. - Author: Kathleen Sebelius

#36. We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra ... - Author: Chuck Palahniuk

#37. As parents and as consumers, we have the right and the power to pressure the entertainment industry to respond to our needs. Americans, after all, should insist that every corporate giant - whether it produces chemicals or records - accept responsibility for what it produces. - Author: Tipper Gore

#38. The industrial world would be a more peaceful place if workers were called in as collaborators in the process of establishing standards and defining shop practices, matters which surely affect their interests and well-being fully as much as they affect those of employers and consumers. - Author: Mary Barnett Gilson

#39. We didn't wait for the renewable heat incentives to come into place; we wanted to be first to provide consumers with alternative ways to heat their homes. - Author: Martin Naughton

#40. Consumers don't think how they feel. They don't say what they think and they don't do what they say. - Author: David Ogilvy

#41. Worth is not something you can buy for $39.99, nor something you can lose with 10 extra pounds. Self-judging people make good consumers. Start a revolution. Love yourself. - Author: Vironika Tugaleva

#42. Non-bank financial institutions provide credit that is essential to U.S. businesses and consumers. - Author: Henry Paulson

#43. Fraud is fraud. And consumers of any product - whether you want to buy a car, participate in fantasy football - our laws are very strong in New York and other states that you can't commit fraud. - Author: Eric Schneiderman

#44. Proponents of efficiency standards argue that they save consumers and businesses money, reduce energy use, and reduce emissions. But families and businesses already understand how energy costs impact their lives and make decisions accordingly. - Author: Gina McCarthy

#45. We are not for making shoes, so the shoemakers can have jobs, but so we can wear the shoes. - Author: Janusz Korwin-Mikke

#46. I can officially state that my government and myself believe that all over Europe we need to open a debate on the 'drug question' in order to create more coherent and human policies with better perspectives ... The policy of criminalizing consumers has failed, creating many problems to our society. - Author: George Papandreou

#47. I believe strongly that the opportunity is here for us in America to finally have a healthcare system that we can really be proud of. But it's got to be one where everybody is involved. Everybody: consumers, employers, providers, health-insurance companies, everybody. - Author: Max Baucus

#48. Testers for 7-Up consistently found consumers would report more lemon flavor in their product if they added 15% more yellow coloring TO THE PACKAGE. - Author: Malcolm Gladwell

#49. I'm not out here on the front lines trying to create clones, or consumers, or worshippers of who I am, and what I do. I'm trying to nurture the idea that you should do your own thing, which is really powerful. - Author: Mike Vallely

#50. Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That puts power back in the hands of consumers. - Author: Elizabeth Warren

#51. The same man who will quote from Benjamin Franklin on thrift for the house organ would be horrified if consumers took these maxims to heart and started putting more money into savings and less into installment purchases. - Author: William H. Whyte

#52. Microeconomics is the study of how specific choices made by businesses, consumers and governments affect the markets for different goods and services. For example, a microeconomist might examine how price changes affect sales of apples relative to oranges. - Author: Alex Berenson

#53. True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers. - Author: Lewis Hyde

#54. In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. - Author: Max Lerner

#55. Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price. - Author: James Surowiecki

#56. We inside Diesel are the first consumers of our advertising. We make ad campaigns for our own amusement - that's why they succeed. - Author: Renzo Rosso

#57. Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to win over the consumers. - Author: Walter E. Williams

#58. Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films. - Author: Jack Valenti

#59. Coding is today's language of creativity. All our children deserve a chance to become creators instead consumers of computer science. - Author: Maria Klawe

#60. I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them. - Author: Aaron Carter

#61. Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness. - Author: Rob Glaser

#62. Comcast rents modems directly to consumers, thereby competing directly with companies like Zoom. It has every reason to make Zoom modems more expensive or even to drive companies like Zoom out of business. - Author: Bernie Sanders

#63. The question isn't whether or not to censor artists who espouse misogynistic views. The question is whether or not we support them as listeners and consumers. - Author: Dessa Darling

#64. The purpose of activism and art, or at least of mine, is to make a world in which people are producers of meaning, not consumers, and - Author: Rebecca Solnit

#65. What the results are telling them is that the most money is spent in volume by young people. They also see young people as the consumers of tomorrow and are trying to capture their attention from their competitors. - Author: Marlo Thomas

#66. If we want to survive we will have to change. We must transition from being dependent consumers to becoming responsible producers. - Author: Joseph P. Kauffman

#67. If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learned something about the sovereignty of the consumers. - Author: Ludwig Von Mises

#68. One of the reasons churches in North America have trouble guiding people about money is that the church's economy is built on consumerism. If churches see themselves as suppliers of religious goods and services and their congregants as consumers, then offerings are 'payment.' - Author: Doug Pagitt

#69. We like people who are honest. Honest in argument, honest with clients, honest with suppliers, honest with the company - and above all, honest with consumers. - Author: David Ogilvy

#70. Consumers learn the value of being sure that what you want to buy is what you buy. - Author: Maelle Gavet

#71. I look for individuality in the artisans I work with for CoutureLab; a loving relationship with the product and care in the construction, along with the story behind it, make couture desirable to consumers looking for something that cannot be mass-produced. - Author: Carmen Busquets

#72. When combining the elements on the Total Guide Solution, we believe we are positioning it to be the starting point for consumers to discover and enjoy digital entertainment on their television. And our name changed to Rovi embodied the ability to be that homepage for consumer search through the TV. - Author: Alfred Amoroso

#73. You have to live with your product, you have to know it through and through, you have to look at it, understand it, love it then, and only then, you can crystallize in one clear thought, one single theme, what must be conveyed about the product to the consumer. - Author: William Bernbach

#74. You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers ... Economic ignorance is to politicians what idle hands are to the devil. Both provide the workshop for the creation of evil. - Author: Walter E. Williams

#75. Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers. - Author: Peter Diamandis

#76. G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric. - Author: Erik Brynjolfsson

#77. Teaching needs an ecosystem that supports evidence-based practice. It will need better systems to disseminate the results of research more widely, but also a better understanding of research, so that teachers can be critical consumers of evidence. - Author: Ben Goldacre

#78. Regardless of the industry, antitrust law is meant to benefit consumers - not competitors. - Author: Marvin Ammori

#79. IE6 was a bad experience for consumers, but it was a terrible for developers. Not only it was technically bad, but it was closed, and you couldn't do much with it. - Author: Mitchell Baker

#80. If you set out to build the church, there is no guarantee you will make disciples. It is far more likely that you will create consumers who depend on the spiritual services that religious professionals provide. - Author: Mike Breen

#81. The smartest advertising is the advertising that communicates the best and respects the consumer's intelligence. - Author: Lee Clow

#82. Consumers never complain about ads being too smart. - Author: Lee Clow

#83. Our value proposition to consumers is so much more about completeness than freshness. Having the complete season is so much more valuable, in our business model, than having last night's episode. - Author: Ted Sarandos

#84. consumers are not a piece of code. You can't just query them into action. - Author: Laura Busche

#85. It doesn't matter how many people you offend, as long as you're getting your message to your consumers. I say to those people who do not want to offend anybody: You are going to have a very, very difficult time having meaningful advertising. - Author: Phil Knight

#86. Those who love quality buy quality products. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#87. THE MISCONCEPTION: Both consumerism and capitalism are sustained by corporations and advertising. THE TRUTH: Both consumerism and capitalism are driven by competition among consumers for status. - Author: David McRaney

#88. News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving. - Author: Gracia Martore

#89. Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies. - Author: Major Owens

#90. The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers. - Author: Chris Hardwick

#91. What we really need is a mindset shift that will make us relevant to todays consumers, a mindset shift from telling to selling to building relationships. - Author: Jim Stengel

#92. As consumer adoption of wireless devices continues to soar, Wi-Fi congestion is becoming a critical problem for consumers and innovators. - Author: Julius Genachowski

#93. Consumers of meat, eggs and dairy products might well ask what they are supporting. Do farmers care about anyone but themselves? Can't anyone see the cow for the cheese? - Author: Ingrid Newkirk

#94. You choose the wrong career, select the wrong mortgage or fail to save for retirement, markets do not correct those failings. In fact, quite the opposite often happens. It is much easier to make money by catering to consumers' biases than by trying to correct them. - Author: Anonymous

#95. The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers. - Author: Ralph Nader

#96. A 2015 research report in the United Kingdom found that the main consumers of vinyl records that year were 18- to 24-year-olds, and research group MusicWatch noted that more than half of vinyl buyers were under 25. Not ageing, retro hipsters. Not crusty old dudes. - Author: David Sax

#97. Normal consumers declare rock to be dead whenever they personally stop listening to it (or at least to new iterations of it), which typically happens about two years after they graduate from college. - Author: Chuck Klosterman

#98. I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything. - Author: Jef I. Richards

#99. As consumers and as voters we can say 'no' to rogue economics and demand regulation. - Author: Loretta Napoleoni

#100. That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers. - Author: Ed Markey