Quotes About Preferences

The most powerful forces in economics are not numbers or facts. They are prejudices and preferences. No amount of evidence will ever change the degree to which many of the rich and powerful prefer themselves to be richer and more powerful and others poorer and weaker.

Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!'

If I played golf, I'd be on the golf course every day, but I just can't wear those dumb pants.

I don't wear jewellery and I don't care about shoes and dresses. But I love my handbags. They're my real luxury.

Colour is really important to me when buying clothes. I wear a lot of fitted jackets, and because I'm small, I avoid long skirts and coats. And I hate wearing hats.

Designers send me clothes I wouldn't feel comfortable wearing.

What I had noticed is that there weren't a lot of women lining up to see a comic book movie, but they were going to line up to see 'The Devil Wears Prada,' which may have been something I wanted to address.

The prominence of the market I guess is important to some people. For me, it was less about the number and more about the opportunities that might open up in that market. One of the questions I wanted to know about that next job was, what's your weather like? I am into the weather!

StumbleUpon has humanized the Web and mastered a way for people to discover online content by incorporating an individual's personal preferences and recommendations of friends and like-minded people.

I actually love being a little older and doing this wedding thing. At 38, I know what I like and what I don't.

People always complain, 'you never invited me to your wedding', but I prefer casual weddings.

You know, when you go to weddings, you see these guys wearing those dress shoes with extra inches of heels? I really don't like those.

India has a cross section of audience whose cultural levels are varied. So where there are takers for Dabangg,' there are also audience for A Wednesday' and Peepli Live.'

If there's foods I don't like, like kale, it doesn't mean that I'm not efficient in my diet; it just means I can eat broccoli and other green vegetables. That's what people don't understand, is that as long as you're having a variety of foods in your diet, you don't have to have the food of the week that's everyone going crazy about.

Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want.

There is clearly a move among some tea-party people, not all of them, to always elect or nominate the most conservative person, and under that scenario, I don't think Scott Brown would probably be their first choice.

We consumers have to send a message every day of what we want and what we don't.

As cool as I want my kids to be, they're just like any other kid. They don't love eggplant unless it is covered in cheese.

Companies are very, very good - better than consumers themselves - at knowing what consumers are actually craving.

I think any List of Best X creates arguments and people saying 'You listed that rubbish?' That's what lists like this are for.

I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.

As a child growing up, it's going to be what you're going to remember most. What you liked or not liked then is going to define who you are at the table!

I don't really like all these tactical systems people talk about: 3-5-2, 4-3-3, and all that.

If a guy is tall, that's a plus, and he has to have a great personality. He needs to keep up with me because I can be an off-the-wall, aloof chatterbox sometimes! But if he's got some height on him... God bless.