Consumers Quotes

You'd have to be blind, deaf and dumb to not have known that oil prices went up. But if that indeed has a severe impact on economic growth, you'd still have to say that Wal-Mart is a defensive play. It sells the cheap food and consumables that consumers have to replenish. - Bernard Sosnick

You want the consumer buoyant. Most consumers are not current-events oriented. When you get everybody involved in current events, when they usually are not, then people are not going to go out and buy things just for pleasure of it. - Delos Smith

You shouldn't have an overbearing FCC. Let the market work itself. By allowing companies to compete in an unregulated forum, you're going to allow the faster deployment of new services and new equipment consumers are going to want. - Fred Upton

You have to remember that low-income consumers really took a hit in 2005. A lot of them maxed out their credit cards at the beginning of the season and then got their winter energy bills. That probably left them with an absence of cash and discretionary spending later on. - Marshal Cohen

You have to get consumers to understand the role they play in controlling health care costs. - Dianne Kiehl

You don't want to necessarily tie consumers to what's available on the home page. You want to give consumers the option to buy stuff or find stuff outside the walled garden. - Linda Barrabee

You don't want to build too much into the TV. Consumers tend not to want too much built into their televisions, and the technology for a television doesn't move quite as fast as the technology for the external devices that are going to help you manage all your entertainment. - Stephen Baker