Consumers Quotes - Page 3

• The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.

  David Ogilvy

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Confessions of an Advertising Man (1963) ch. 5

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• Quite frankly, I think nothing could do more to immediately bolster national security then enabling us to produce more oil and gas here at home at a price consumers could afford.

  Phil Gramm

  Home, Thinking, Oil

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• As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Generations, Care, Today

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• We need to listen to consumers' needs

  Sumner Redstone

  Needs

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• Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious.

  Pete Domenici

  Gasoline Prices, Tolls, Today

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• An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers.

  Martin Feldstein

  Latin, Usa, America

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• The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now paid only by Americans.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Goal, Drug, World

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• And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.

  Juice Newton

  Thinking, Fans, Records

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• The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers.

  Dan Glickman

  Technology, Way, Entertainment

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• Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness.

  Robert Glaser

  Thinking, Apples, Choices

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• The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.

  Mike Ferguson

  Years, Technological Change, Pace

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• There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.

  Pete Domenici

  Oil, Growing, Too Much

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• That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers

  Ed Markey

  Hands, President, Pockets

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• Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer.

  Lester Maddox

  Honesty, Business, Should

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• The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection.

  Mike Johanns

  Goal, Sound, Protection

  "Exclusive: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• 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.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, Destiny, Knowledgeable

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.

  Lewis Mumford

  Peace, War, Army

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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• The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Opportunity, Order, Pay

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.9, Book Tree

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• It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.

  David Ogilvy

  Night, Ideas, Doubt

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• Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

  Christopher Lasch

  Sea, Play, People

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• Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.

  Dan Lipinski

  Travel, People, Suffering

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• The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.

  Lindsey Graham

  Home, Retail, Reconstruction

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• The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

  Christopher Lasch

  Historical, Citizens, Development

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.235, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

  David Ogilvy

  Wife, Agents, Advertising

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

  Anita Roddick

  Shopping, Choices, Moral

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