#consume

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#classical #consumer #contrast #economic #economic life

The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment. ↗

— Michael Schudson

#amount #available #consumer #consumers #depends

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#happiness #more #producing #right #than

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#contain #ever #lightning #poetry #sword

I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better. ↗

— John Stossel

#before #better #bring #consumer #doing

I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation. ↗

— John Stossel

#business #called #competition #consumers #criticizing

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off. ↗

— John Stossel

#get #i #imperfect #learned #market

There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#belt #consumer #conveyor #couple #days

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs. ↗

— Joe Baca

#care #consumers #cost #costs #however

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#buy #carry #children #consumerism #first