Quotes with consumer

  • Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
  • When people have a MakerBot, they have a different mindset from everybody else who grew up as a consumer. Instead of thinking, 'I need to go buy that,' they first think, 'Do I need to go buy that? I could just MakerBot that.'
  • Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

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  • Harold Coffin A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
    Harold Coffin
    American columnist (1905 - 1981)
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  • Herbert Hoover Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Adam Smith Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Barry White Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Blake Mycoskie Exercise your purchasing power as a consumer, volunteer and bring joy to those in need, and share your experiences, tell your stories, and inspire others along the way.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Benjamin Harrison God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with unalienable rights.
    The Status of Annexed Territory and of Its Free Civilized Inhabitants in North American Review, vol. 172, no. 530 (January 1901), p. 22.
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Ann Veneman I also believe that it's the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food systems. And I believe that the consumer should have strong confidence in our food systems.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Alan Parsons I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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  • Begum Aga Khan If Western firms pay developing countries' suppliers' starvation wages in order to feed the West's ever increasing consumer demand, can we call that 'partnership'?
    International Business and Leadership Symposium address
    Begum Aga Khan
    French Egyptian artist and last wife of Sultan Aga Khan III (1906 - 2000)
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  • Jay Levinson In order to sell a product or a service, a company must establish a relationship with the consumer. It must build trust and rapport. It must understand the customer's needs, and it must provide a product that delivers the promised benefits.
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  • Ben Affleck In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Anne W. Schaef It is in the interests of our society to promote those things that take the edge off, keep us busy with our fixes, and keep us slightly numbed out and zombie like. In this way our modern consumer society itself functions as an addict.
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  • Bob Iger It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.
    Bob Iger
    American business executive (1951 - )
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  • Bill Gurley Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer.
    Bill Gurley
    American businessman (1966 - )
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  • Milton Friedman Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
    Milton Friedman
    American economist (1912 - 2006)
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  • Anita Roddick Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Carter G. Woodson 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
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • David Ogilvy The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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