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Consumer culture is contradiction in terms -- Tibor Kalman
Consumer electronics is a challenging one. -- Kevin B. Rollins
They Want You To Be A Docile Apathetic Consumer -- Bill Hicks
Consumer habits are key to understanding how to launch a product. -- Charles Duhigg
Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine. -- Elizabeth Warren
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated. -- Susie Orbach
The Ideal Consumer is someone who is constantly dissatisfies, constanly needs more and more products in order to feel better. -- Jean Kilbourne
Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: "A right to not have your data rise up and attack you." -- Benjamin Wittes
If President Barack Obama had not been in the White House, we would not have the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today. -- Elizabeth Warren
Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency. -- Herbert Stein
What do the Republicans say? Donald Trump? They say they're just going to roll back the Dodd-Frank regulations. They want to undermine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. -- Elizabeth Warren
Consumer groups fought hard to provide investor protections for special entities such as pension funds, schools, and municipalities who purchase swaps. No comparable protection exists in the futures market. -- Daniel L. Doctoroff
Consumer groups fought hard to provide investor protections for 'special entities' such as pension funds, schools, and municipalities who purchase swaps. No comparable protection exists in the futures market. -- Daniel L. Doctoroff
We do a lot of consumer research. Consumers believe the smartphone will be the remote, meaning that it will orchestrate a lot of things. So maybe you will take your connectivity with you to the car. -- Hans Vestberg
If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are subject to safety regulation; water pistols are, but not real guns. -- Michael D. Barnes
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I. -- Matthew Lesko
Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall. -- Francis Chan
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. -- Milton Friedman
We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art. -- Chris Bangle
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
If there's a choice between tap water and bottled water, the consumer can make that choice. In a very large geography in the world, that choice does not exist. -- Muhtar Kent
The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need. -- Daniel Pennac
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. -- Adam Smith
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating. -- Alan Kay
Transparency, accountability and sustainability have become the slogans of the market leaders. Companies carry out environmental and social audits to court the consumer, and even the bluest chips woo organisations such as Greenpeace and Amnesty. -- Noreena Hertz
The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending. -- Vince Cable
We used to think that the enterprise was the hardest customer to satisfy, but we were wrong. It turns out, consumers are harder than the enterprise because the consumer will not give you a second chance. -- Eric Schmidt
When a company identifies how to integrate the processes needed to give the consumer a sense of job completion, it can blow away the competition. A product is easy to copy, but experiences are very hard to replicate. -- Clayton M. Christensen
Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I'm the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before. -- William Bernbach
The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior. -- Marc Andreesen
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. -- Felicia Day
When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides? -- Jerry Brown
You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that's bad for everybody. -- Hillary Clinton
The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains. -- Mark Skousen
When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification. -- Bruce Dickinson
The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof. -- Steve Jobs
The model of getting the consumer to come to you is old, and the new model is how can you get to the consumer on their terms, in ways they want to engage in. How people are choosing to interface with content is very different. You've got to marry different platforms. -- Mindy Grossman
Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply. -- Steve Jobs
Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together. -- Steve Jobs
The consumer is always right. -- Harry Gordon Selfridge
I am the self-consumer of my woes, -- John Clare
Escape is a consumer goods like another -- Iain Banks
Stop being a consumer, fight the power! -- Peaches Geldof
The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted. -- Karsten Harries
I think of myself as just another consumer. -- Roelof Botha
One God, one market, one truth, one consumer -- Zack de la Rocha
Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer. -- Anita Roddick
There is no substitute for an ecstatic consumer. -- Mark Joyner
Copy is a direct conversation with the consumer. -- Shirley Polykoff
Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer. -- Lester Maddox
Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire. -- Bob Iger
I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
When you focus on the consumer, the consumer responds. -- Alexander Wang
Legislators need to support privacy to establish consumer confidence. -- Marc Rotenberg
$60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000 -- John Warren Kindt
The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife. -- David Ogilvy
The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. -- David Ogilvy
Design is more important than technology in most consumer applications. -- Dave McClure
Ambient Devices develops a new generation of consumer electronic products. -- David Rose
The market system makes all producers responsible to the consumer. -- Ludwig von Mises
Instead of gutting consumer protection, we should be expanding it. -- Hillary Clinton
Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes. -- Seth Godin
The market and the consumer and idea trump the system. -- Seth Godin
We're all subject to the daily pressures of consumer persuasion. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Traditional ads placed into digital just shout at the consumer -- Michael Reeves
The consumer's side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
You're pregnant? Congratulations, the world needs another mindless, semiliterate consumer. -- Dov Davidoff
A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something. -- Harold Coffin
Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy -- John Warren Kindt
Content is the emotional and informational bridge between commerce and consumer. -- Jay Baer
Direct to consumer really gives you control of your business completely. -- Tamara Mellon
Clearly, Japan is a most important market for digital consumer products. -- David Milne
All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer. -- John Maynard Keynes
The habits of the American consumer are changing; that's a reality. -- Linda Wells
The Chinese economy's still not that much of a consumer economy. -- Fareed Zakaria
Maintaining the trust of the consumer is critical to our business -- Jeremy Stoppelman
Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them. -- Michael Schudson
The consumer is both culprit and victim of the confusion on quality. -- Nino Cerruti
Free trade or the free market means the sovereignty of the consumer. -- Faustino Ballve
I still consider myself a consumer of music more than anything else. -- DJ Shadow
No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer. -- Clive Thompson
The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile. -- Julie Bishop
I think the big force is going to be consumer buying power. -- Roy Romer
And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows. -- Dick Wolf
People enjoy our meat and our poultry, as I do as a consumer. -- Mike Johanns
There is simply no way to sustain an economy based on consumer credit. -- Peter Schiff
Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people. -- Bryant McGill
I would not describe myself as a super early adopter of consumer technology. -- Peter Thiel
Halloween will be a slam-dunk for merchants despite the weakening consumer spending trends. -- Richard Hastings
Consolidating to the point of monopoly has never served the consumer - ever. -- Gwynne Shotwell
We need conscious entertainment that engage and influence its consumer to rational thinking. -- Unarine Ramaru
The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
A brand is nothing but an expression of the consumer's loyalty and trust. -- Phil Dusenberry
The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine -- John Warren Kindt
The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection. -- Mike Johanns
Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods. -- Yuri Andropov
Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives. -- Sheldon Richman
Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand. -- Michael Pollan
Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer. -- Pierre Omidyar
In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer... -- Lewis Mumford
It's not business to consumer, it's not business to business, it's people to people -- Brian Solis
All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer. -- Murray Rothbard
The main goal is not to complicate the already difficult life of the consumer. -- Raymond Loewy
A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer. -- Al Ries
We remain unconvinced that consumer appetite for mobile TV services exists outside of niche segments. -- Phil Taylor
The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history. -- Ralph Nader
Good first drafts and speedy responses to consumer dialog will always trump lawyered corporate speak. -- John Battelle
I truly believe the American consumer doesn't want to buy products made under abusive conditions. -- Phil Knight
Making consumer choices that reward eco-friendly products and companies is a great way to start. -- Al Gore
Every state's emblematic propaganda is worshiped by the consumer-citizen as a super-logo, a brand Juggernaut. -- Bryant McGill
The smartest advertising is the advertising that communicates the best and respects the consumer's intelligence. -- Lee Clow
The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer. -- Robin Gross
No one has ever gone broke underestimating the insecurities of the gay and lesbian consumer. -- Dan Savage
The Department of Defense, the largest single energy consumer in America, is bullish on solar. -- Bernie Sanders
I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person. -- Michael Moore
All the social things the consumer has gotten used to are being applied to business. -- Ram Shriram
I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning. -- Umberto Eco

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