Quotes About Consumer

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.

I was always into comic books and horror stories and a huge consumer of pop culture. And then I worked for awhile for 'The Village Voice'.

I am urging Americans to be more careful about the kinds of media we support with our consumer spending. We've got to invest less in the media that glorifies violence and more in entertainment that lifts up the values of love, compassion, and the best in human nature.

An overly expansive virtual 'toll' for the Internet that blocks consumers' and competitors' access to the e-commerce superhighway is not the right answer.

The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.

The lord of production is the consumer

What is thus improperly regarded as profit, instead of as part of capital, is consumed by the entrepreneur or passed on either to the consumer in the form of price-reductions that would not otherwise have been made or to the labourer in the form of higher wages, and the government proceeds to tax it as income or profits. In any case, consumption of capital results from the fact that monetary depreciation falsifies capital accounting.

If rapid and erratic variations in prices were usually encountered in the market, the conception of objective exchange-value would not have attained the significance that it is actually accorded both by consumer and producer.

The average man is both better informed and less corruptible in the decisions he makes as a consumer than as a voter at political elections.

I am always interested in designing things that have a great price point attached to it.

If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer's not going to take notice.

Market growth alone doesn't give you enough tailwind. You have to create your own. The way to do that is by designing products for consumers that wow them.

A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.

In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.

The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.

If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the market­place responds to the public's needs and desires.

When you think about it, girls and women are the largest market in the world.

Marketing is everything.

Marketing is for companies who have sucky products.

The activities of automobile manufacturers, commercial real estate developers, and the federal government have been far more important in determining patterns of transportation than consumer choice.

being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do. We ought to be bad citizens. We ought to, in the sense that we're writing against what power represents, and often what government represents, and what the corporation dictates, and what consumer consciousness has come to mean. In that sense, if we're bad citizens, we're doing our job.

To understand products, it is not enough to understand design or technology: it is critical to understand business.

Customers are much more likely to buy a $500 item if they can get it for only $200.