One of the things that the Affordable Care Act has done, which is advantageous to consumers, is created marketplaces, where people can… — David Blumenthal Copy Share Image
As a senator, I raised the alarm about sub prime mortgages. I fought to hold reckless manufacturers accountable for toxic toys and… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image
We get off track. Capitalism takes us off track. You get off the "real" and get on the "wheel." The "wheel" becomes… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
"Solid wastes" are the discarded leftovers of our advanced consumer society. This growing mountain of garbage and trash represents not only an… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The history of clothing practices provides guidance for fashioning a new ethic that emphasizes quality over quantity, longevity over novelty, and versatility… — Juliet B. Schor Copy Share Image
Everything is deeply affected by the dominant culture. Consumerism is huge in the US. This is by far the wealthiest [nation], but… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
By the time we, consumers, are aware of processes like genetic engineering, they're already being done. It's sort of like the war… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Business is the most powerful force in society. It has the highest potential for solving social problems. Once consumers saw examples of… — Ben Cohen Copy Share Image
For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“When life hasn’t got a swing anymore, people may give in to obsessive oniomaniac compulsions, in as much as they are going… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the… — John Twelve Hawks Copy Share Image
When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know,… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
American consumers are not saying they will not buy GMO foods. What they're saying is "I want to know. I want to… — Peter Shumlin Copy Share Image
All it takes is to pick up that one piece of trash you pass everyday on your way to work. Or to… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
The consumer has become increasingly sophisticated in the way they obtain and digest information - of the simple reason that they've become… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
A very complicated mass of things influences the economy - the speculative effect, government policy, consumer borrowing and spending, the level of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In the consumer economy taste is not the criterion in the marketing of expensive soft drinks, usability is not the primary criterion… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Letting the free market do whatever it wants. That's not been historically how we grow. We have to invest in education, in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Companies and their brands need to reach out and speak directly to consumers, to honor their values, and to form meaningful relationships… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
All I am asking is that we follow the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."… — Ken Caldeira Copy Share Image
It [the pharmaceutical industry] is the most profitable industry in the world, and partially funds the US government. It surpasses oil in… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
You have to live with your product, you have to know it through and through, you have to look at it, understand… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Perhaps you are thinking: 'But a tank costs several million dollars, not including floor mats. I don't have that kind of money.'… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
Our consumer-oriented economy wouldn't survive without economic growth. The whole mechanism depends on invention and insinuation of novelties, arousing new wants, seduction… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The general uncertainty about the prospects of medical treatment is socially handled by rigid entry requirements. These are designed to reduce the… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
Leave America and you'll find that the consumers in many other countries enjoy watching advertising. Not because the products are better, but… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
The plain, unvarnished truth is that public education is a shoddy, fraudulent piece of goods sold t to the public at an… — Samuel Blumenfeld Copy Share Image
I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Weight loss programs and health clubs have an ethical and legal obligation to adequately disclose details about program costs before customers sign… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think if there was an ISP tax of some sort, we can say to the consumer, 'All music is now available… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image