Consumers Quotes · Page 3

Aiming at giving our kids a competitive edge in a consumer society - that, in principle, is a goal that is limitless.

— Michael Sandel

if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.

— Anita Roddick

It is high time that the E.U.'s internal market delivered substantially lower communications charges for consumers and business people traveling abroad. A…

— Viviane Reding

If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the…

— James Surowiecki

I founded Minted in 2007 with the desire to use 'crowd-sourcing' to bring designs from the best emerging and independent designers in…

— Mariam Naficy

The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they…

— Theodor Adorno

Persuasion has become a kind of force. The more the advertiser knows about what consumers want, and the more desires the product…

— Virginia Postrel

The glue that kept the consumer market together the last few years was the wealth effect from the housing boom.

— Joel C. Rosenberg

The one real thing that money buys - Time.

— Marita Bonner

Corporations, consumers, and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to…

— Simon Mainwaring

Size of industry, concentration of market, or production notwithstanding, the consumer is best served when the businessman is completely free to pursue…

— John Pugsley

Here in particular the idea of contextual communication - i.e. communicating the right message, at the right time to the right audience…

— Martin Lindstrom

Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To…

— Alan Thein Durning

I say to consumers: instead of relying totally on critics, drink what you like and like what you drink.

— Robert Mondavi

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

— Anita Roddick

[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost…

— Lewis H. Lapham

The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously.…

— Marshall McLuhan

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

— Christopher Lasch

A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand…

— James Surowiecki

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes…

— Bill Gates

Consumers who are thinking of opening one of these no-limit credit cards may want to think how deeply their scores will be…

— Craig Watts

Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means…

— John W. Gardner

I'm funding a new business with money I would have given away in the first place. And I'm starting a responsible business…

— Horst Rechelbacher

Chinese consumers don't book hotel rooms that are as expensive as U.S. consumers.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

For some reason, everyone says "fashion is responsible for skinny models." I don't believe that myself. I believe consumers dictate commercial success…

— Kelly Cutrone