Consumers Quotes · Page 20

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer…

— Melissa Bean

I think that the consumer is generally unaware of certain material facts, particularly the tax risk and compensation issues.

— Ric Edelman

The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.

— Chris Hardwick

What the people now respond - and the goal of those ads is to merely get the name of the medication into…

— Frank Luntz

Secret courts making secret rulings on secret laws, and companies flagrantly lying to consumers about the insecurity of their products and services,…

— Bruce Schneier

Government spending reduces the capital that could be invested to serve consumers and to produce new employment opportunities.

— Sheldon Richman

Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to…

— Cynthia McKinney

I don’t mean to make a big deal out of sobriety, by the way. Of all the modes of human consciousness available…

— Michael Chabon

Im happy to be a part of the conversation, if more young people are talking about fracking instead of twerking were heading…

— Russell Brand

Fur is a contentious issue. Meat is a contentious issue. GMOs are a contentious issue. I think this whole thing going on…

— Billy Corgan

Consumer spending is now plunging at serious-recession rate ... even if the rescue now in train succeeds in unfreezing credit markets, the…

— Paul Krugman

Bill sees and understands the possibilities of a connected world and has the expertise and the experience to help make it a…

— Steve Case

The increasing presence of cloud computing and mobile smart phones is driving the digitization of everything across both consumer and enterprise domains.…

— Geoffrey Moore

The industrial world would be a more peaceful place if workers were called in as collaborators in the process of establishing standards…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

What defines Web 2.0 is the fact that the material on it is generated by the users (consumers) rather than the producers…

— George Ritzer

The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency.

— Herbert Stein

I would rather have the costs of consumer goods and restaurants - products we as consumers can choose to buy or not…

— Mark Cuban

The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a…

— Daniel Pennac

Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied...…

— Ludwig von Mises

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like…

— Mitt Romney

The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers.

— Dan Glickman

But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and…

— David Ricardo

Don't underestimate the value people place on authenticity. Politicians listen to the focus groups and say the things they think people want…

— Rochelle B Lazarus

The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle…

— Jean Baudrillard

“The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Unfortunately, in the environment, I don't see as much willingness to invest heavily in R&D as I do in consumer technology. And…

— Ramez Naam

For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could…

— Anatoly Chubais

When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no…

— Maurice Saatchi

I'm part of the consumer culture. I was part of the baby boom generation. I have a car when I shouldn't, a…

— John Elkington

I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal, as fragmented people make for better consumers.

— Kathleen Norris

As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In…

— Steven Pressfield

I am concerned about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don't want to use the economy, commodity prices or…

— Howard Schultz

In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as…

— Walter Lippmann

While games are fun to play, children should grow up not just being the consumers of technology but also the creators of…

— Newton Lee

Our job is to ensure that meat and poultry products are safe, wholesome, accurately labeled for the benefit of the American consumers,…

— Mike Johanns

Let's stand up for taxpayers, let's stand up for consumers, and let's stand up for small businesses, which create most of the…

— Hillary Clinton

Country of Origin labelling is something that consumers really want, and I think it's critical to support Australian farmers.

— Christine Milne

To get into the consumer's mind, you have to sacrifice. You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single…

— Al Ries

We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume…

— Karl Kraus