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Quotes About Consumers

consumer discretionary stocks include products that consumers might want, but don't necessarily need (like a new car or house). They can defer those purchases until things start to get better. They can't defer food purchases.
~ John J. Murphy
The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
the added expense of carbon capture and storage for all the new coal plants expected to be built in all of the world's developing nations could be paid for through a one percent tax on the electricity bills of consumers in developed nations.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
It put the interest of the producers and merchants ahead of that of consumers, who only want low prices and a ready supply of goods. Merchants often prefer the opposite.
~ Arthur Herman
All these media buzz around Great Bonanza Indian Festival by eCommerce companies for the last many days have turned out to be as usual a damb squib i.e a big disappointment for consumers as no benefit or no real discount price seen
~ Ashiish Binaani
Right now we think that rates will stay low, that you'll be able to get a mortgage below seven percent and that's kicked off a refinance boom that's going to put more money in the pockets of consumers.
~ Franklin Raines
Marketers know - no matter how deep the emotional connection or brand loyalty - when a product does not perform, rational thought overtakes emotion, and most consumers make a new choice.
~ Mark McKinnon
I think Amazon has been great for readers.
~ MacKenzie Scott
When I joined Time Inc., one of the things that was important to me was ensuring that our content is where consumers want to read it. The Apple newsstand is an important place where a lot of consumers are. And Apple is really becoming a good partner to publishers. We are confident we can deliver a experience for our readers that 's really good.
~ Laura Lang
I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
~ J. A. Konrath
Real estate deals a lot with the government. It isn't like manufacturing, logistics, home appliances or the auto sector, which deal with consumers.
~ Wang Jianlin
I think that real estate consumers are stuffy; I think they're scared. They don't buy a house every day. It's a very infrequent purchase.
~ Glenn Kelman
I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
~ Aaron Carter
India is one of the biggest consumers of Chinese goods and if we boycott their products, it will definitely impact their economy.
~ Zareen Khan
I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything.
~ Jef I. Richards
I think, as e-commerce grows as a category, most e-commerce companies are focused on women because they are the decision makers and the consumers. When you think of e-commerce, and fashion is a big part of that, women are much more in tune with what other women are looking for online.
~ Brian Lee
Women are clearly the major consumers in far more than just female categories. It doesn't matter whether it is purchases of cars, cosmetics, or even products for men, female consumption power is the leading consumption power in the world. Any company that overlooks the woman as the decision maker is making a huge mistake.
~ Andrea Jung
Women are the primary healthcare consumers in the country. 80 percent of all healthcare decisions are made by women.
~ Marsha Blackburn
I think women are vital to the future of the superhero comics and the entire industry - as creators, as editors, as consumers, as retailers.
~ Kelly Sue DeConnick
Advertising is the 'wonder' in Wonder Bread.
~ Jef I. Richards
Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy.
~ Nathan Myhrvold
The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.
~ David Ogilvy
Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment in which getting the order out the door is the only thing that matters.
~ James Surowiecki
Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm that has 'sold out' has succeeded, but an artist that has 'sold out' has failed.
~ Alex Tabarrok