Consumer Quotes - page 3

If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong. (James Surowiecki)
Medical tourism can be considered a kind of import: instead of the product coming to the consumer, as it does with cars or sneakers, the consumer is going to the product. View quote
James Surowiecki
No matter how much control kids get over the media they watch, they are still utterly powerless when it comes to the manufacturing of brands. Even a consumer revolt merely reinforces one's role as a consumer, not an autonomous or creative being. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
...it's always been difficult for us to lead an examined life as a corporation. I've always felt like a company has the responsibility to not wait for the government to tell it what to do, or to wait for the consumer to tell it what to do, but as soon as it finds out it's doing something wrong, stop doing it. View quote
Yvon Chouinard
Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer. View quote
Anita Roddick
I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more.' View quote
Michel Gondry
Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day. View quote
Oscar de la Renta
Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase. View quote
Daryl Hannah
The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb. View quote
Andy Hobsbawm
As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy. View quote
Bill Ford
Exercise your purchasing power as a consumer, volunteer and bring joy to those in need, and share your experiences, tell your stories, and inspire others along the way. (Blake Mycoskie)
Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star. View quote
Barry White
I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us. View quote
Bennie Thompson
The world is changing... I don't, as a consumer, want advertising that's not relevant. If we're going to take a side, let's take the side of the consumer. View quote
Charlie Ergen
Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources. View quote
Cynthia McKinney
Clearly, Japan is a most important market for digital consumer products. View quote
David Milne
But, when we started our product portfolio, we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio applications, targeting our technology into the growing use of digital technology in consumer markets. View quote
David Milne
And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows. View quote
Dick Wolf
Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel. View quote
Dan Lipinski
No one has ever gone broke underestimating the insecurities of the gay and lesbian consumer. View quote
Dan Savage
The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel. (Ed Markey)
I feel like maybe I'm part of that generation that became more of a gamer than a video consumer. It's always been something I've done with my spare time. If I had three hours on a Friday night, I'm not out partying. I'm probably playing video games. View quote
Felicia Day
Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall. View quote
Francis Chan
The rates of soda consumption in our poorest communities cannot be explained by individual consumer preferences alone, but rather are linked to broader issues of access and affordability of healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods, and to the marketing efforts of soda companies themselves. View quote
Geoffrey Canada
Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and create new jobs which are critical components of economic growth, particularly within the small business community. View quote
Howard Coble