The thing that our system is designed to do is keep us alone and isolated in our little consumer bubble. And the… — Avi Lewis Copy Share Image
On the unhampered market there prevails an irresistible tendency to employ every factor of production for the best possible satisfaction of the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Learning as we go... Why didn't they tell us this before? We, the consumers, are supposed to be docile guinea pigs in… — Ralph W. Moss Copy Share Image
Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as "consumers." OK? Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The rates of soda consumption in our poorest communities cannot be explained by individual consumer preferences alone, but rather are linked to… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“In a world where consumers had limited choice, you needed to compete for locations,” says Ross, who went on to cofound eCommera,… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
I think this market space, this modern world we're living in, one of its greatest failures is that it can only seem… — Herbert Copy Share Image
So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't… — Miguel de Icaza Copy Share Image
'On demand' is more than just a series of clicks on your still-too-complicated remote control. In fact, it is now the best… — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
In today's retail environment, competition comes from every conceivable retail format. To succeed, we have to operate more efficiently and compete more… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
If that hideousness came here, it wouldn't be any more hideous for the animals — they are all bound for a ghastly… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Being forcefully rattled out of our consumer mentality - our addiction to comfort and convenience can create an opportunity for us [people]… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
Not only does neoliberalism undermine both civic education and public values and confuse education with training, it also treats knowledge as a… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
[the Republicans] have come up with nothing. They say repeal and replace. That has alliteration. But that's all it has going for… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
I think as the beauty industry moves forward, you will start to see more brands opening their eyes and becoming vegan. Excluding… — Jeffree Star Copy Share Image
While business advertises, charity is taught to beg. While business motivates with a dollar, charity is told to motivate with guilt. While… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
Phone companies recognize that the pipes are not enough anymore. You need something to go through the pipes. You need content. I… — Maria Bartiromo Copy Share Image
My biggest fear is that I become useless or less useful by not being up to date - be it with technology,… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
The last few months have seen a welcome race to the top. Consumers have sent companies a clear signal that they do… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket… Because I’m capping greenhouse gasses, coal power plants,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Yes, there may be some convergence to what you see on a screen that's different from the way you will experience a… — Norman Pearlstine Copy Share Image
It's a matter of resisting what something made you feel before. And resisting that as a consumer is not easy. I know… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
In our modern society the image and mythic process has been taken over by corporations that directly control advertising and, indirectly, the… — Robert Lawlor Copy Share Image
I talk about things from the perspective of the consumer - mostly because that's what I am. A guy going out and… — Marques Brownlee Copy Share Image
Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Renewable energy fits well into the conservative mindset by allowing competition into the energy markets so that consumers have choice. The system… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices… — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued reams of playground regulations and actually gone so far as to recommend against "tripping hazards,… — Lenore Skenazy Copy Share Image
I tell young entrepreneurs to use the leader in their industry as a benchmark as they work to create their own brand.… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
The goals of development are always and everywhere stated in terms of consumer value packages standardized around the North Atlantic-and therefore always… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
When you're working in the business and you are genuinely trying to do what's right for consumers, and you're trying to genuinely… — Ian McLeod Copy Share Image
But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if… — Jim McDermott Copy Share Image
Today's consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism. They are not opposed to companies making a… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
Rather than simply interrupting a television show with a commercial or barging into the consumer’s life with an unannounced phone call or… — Seth Copy Share Image
Capital burns off the nuance in a culture. Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
But, when we started our product portfolio, we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio… — David Milne Copy Share Image
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![“[the Republicans] have come up with nothing. They say repeal and replace. That has alliteration. But that's all it has going for it because they don't have a replacement. What they have put forth and outlined will cost more to consumers. It will cover fewer people. It will give tax breaks to the…” quote by Nancy Pelosi](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0d4/nancy-pelosi-1267_alliteration_the-republicans-have-come-up-with-nothin_2028054.png)
