A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.
Linus Torvalds

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
Harold Coffin

A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell.
Esther Dyson

Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.
Michael Schudson

All the action, in semiconductors at the present time is in the new consumer applications, and that's where we have focused our activities since we started doing our own products in the late '90s.
David Milne

Ambient Devices develops a new generation of consumer electronic products.
David Rose

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
Mikhail Gorbachev

And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.
Dick Wolf

And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth.
Steve Case

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.
Melissa Bean

At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.
Cliff Stearns

Batter strikeouts continue to go up like the Consumer Price Index.
Leonard Robert Davids

Before long it will be the animals who do the dieting so that the ultimate consumer does not have to.
Mimi Sheraton

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.
Dave Barry

But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer.
Jay Chiat

But, when we started our product portfolio, we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio applications , targeting our technology into the growing use of digital technology in consumer markets.
David Milne

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.
David Ogilvy

China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world.
Sellapan Ramanathan

Clearly, Japan is a most important market for digital consumer products.
David Milne

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
Herbert Hoover