Consumers Quotes - Page 7

• Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.

  Stephen Bayley

  Design, Rich, Process

  Stephen Bayley (1991). “Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things”, Pantheon

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• America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy - and how we buy it - we'll change who we are.

  Faith Popcorn

  America, United States, Popcorn

  Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.13, BookBaby

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• All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Purpose, Satisfying, Productions

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.41, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  People, Anxiety, Today

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• Consumers no longer want only a great product - they want to buy products from companies that align with their own character and values.

  Muhtar Kent

  Character, Want, Company

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• A consumer is not a moron. She's your wife. Don't insult her intelligence, and don't shock her.

  David Ogilvy

  Wife, Insult, Shock

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• The consumer is getting fed up with shoddy material, poor quality, unsafe products, bad service, weak warranties, lack of adequate information -- the whole gamut of such problems.

  Virginia Knauer

  Poor Quality, Information, Adequate

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• Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself.

  Bell Hooks

  Cult Of Personality, Ideas, Capitalist

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.227, Routledge

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• Stop competing on price; compete on value. Deliver total consumer solutions, rather than just your piece of the solution.

  Faith Popcorn

  Pieces, Competing, Solutions

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• Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like.

  Martin Feldstein

  Home, Cash, Improvement

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• In the desktop world, you could build a successful business where a consumer only came back to you once or maybe twice a year. I don't think you can build that kind of business on mobile. You need higher frequency, or otherwise you fall off the home screen and the user never comes back.

  John Collison

  Fall, Home, Successful

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• I'm part of the consumer culture. I was part of the baby boom generation. I have a car when I shouldn't, a couple of computers; I can't be anti-consumerist in that sense.

  John Elkington

  Baby, Couple, Car

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think people often underestimate the power of consumers. But I equally say that consumers are like shock troops: You can't keep them agitated and motivated and committed and active forever. There are pulses where they switch on to a particular issue, and just inevitably they switch off.

  John Elkington

  Thinking, Issues, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think it's one of the most important battles for consumers to fight: the right to know what's in their food, and how it was grown.

  Joel Salatin

  Fighting, Thinking, Important

  "Food, Inc". Documentary, www.imdb.com. July 31, 2009.

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• Social media, especially Twitter, has completely changed the fashion and media industries - we now can go direct to consumers in a nanosecond - amazing way of distributing content - right to the point.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Fashion, Media, Way

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• I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of contemporary life.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Character, Littles, Way

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Meaningful rules in the consumer credit market can accelerate economic recovery. Rules would increase consumer confidence and, more importantly, weed out all the tricks and traps that sap families of billions of dollars annually.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Meaningful, Weed, Recovery

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• Cars, toys, aspirin, meat, toasters, water - nearly every product sold has passed basic safety regulations well in advance of being marketed and sold. But consumer credit is a kind of buyer-beware, wild west. That is partly the result of history.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Safety, Water, Car

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• I'm a great admirer, fan and consumer of television. I love serial drama. I have been a major fan of HBO's series for many years.

  Todd Haynes

  Drama, Hbo, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• We live in a consumer culture, and Black Friday is like the July 4th of that culture. It might be good not to live in this culture, but it terms of what we can do to make people safer at big sales, it seems more useful to try to avoid dangerous crowd conditions.

  John Seabrook

  Friday, 4th Of July, People

  "Ask the Author Live: John Seabrook on Crowds". live chat, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2011.

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• Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.

  Eric Topol

  Data, Information, Handle

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• The biggest weakness of the green-consumer movement, always, is that we tend to pick the easy-to-do things because that's where we can most readily engage people. It doesn't cost them very much to switch products or whatever it happens to be.

  John Elkington

  People, Weakness, Cost

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Big banks churn out page after page of incomprehensible fine print to obscure the cost and risks of checking accounts, credit cards, mortgages and other financial products. The result is that consumers can't make direct product comparisons, markets aren't competitive, and costs are higher. If the playing field is leveled and the broken market fixed, a lot more money will stay in the pockets of millions of hard-working families. That's real stimulus - money to families, without increasing our national debt.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Real, Hard Work, Broken

  "Exclusive Interview: Elizabeth Warren Says Big Banks Must Stop Blocking Reform". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2012.

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• Personal responsibility matters. There are no excuses for those who spend money on things they cannot afford. But it's a whole lot harder to act responsibly when consumer credit contracts are designed to be incomprehensible, when prices are obscure and risks are hidden.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Responsibility, Risk, Credit

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Companies watch what consumers are doing like a hawk. Just as one letter to a politician can signal an insipient problem, for companies, a trend where people are beginning to switch away from one of their key products to a rival offering on the basis of either claims or real improvements on performance, that's significant.

  John Elkington

  Real, Keys, Offering

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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