Consumers Quotes

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The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly -whether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition at home and free trade… — Milton Friedman
Competition is the most promising means to achieve and secure prosperity. It alone enables people in their role of consumer to gain from economic progress.… — Ludwig Erhard
It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it. — Kalle Lasn
The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and… — Ralph Nader
[The taxing power of the state] divides the community into two great classes: one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes and, of… — John C. Calhoun
What does a tax do? It takes either from the producer or the consumer a more or less sizable portion of the product destined in… — Gustave de Molinari
Protectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by which special interests… — Ralph Raico
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… — Llewellyn Rockwell
This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them… — Murray Rothbard
There's no denying that a collapse in stock prices today would pose serious macroeconomic challenges for the United States. Consumer spending would slow, and the… — Ben Bernanke
The pending merger with XM will offer unprecedented choice for consumers and create tremendous value for stockholders. — Mel Karmazin
The last few months have seen a welcome race to the top. Consumers have sent companies a clear signal that they do not want their… — Paul Polman
Combating climate change is absolutely critical to the future of our company,Green Cooler customers, consumers-and our world. I believe all of us need to take… — Indra Nooyi
According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430 billion in 1998.Consumer… — Jacques Ellul
The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is the standard procedure for corporate growth these days; one company buys up another on loans that are floated on the basis of future… — Eric Kierans
The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply. — Ludwig von Mises
Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods. — Ludwig von Mises
It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production is aimed only… — Ludwig von Mises
The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent on… — Ludwig von Mises

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