#consume

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

I love getting consumer reports. I think it's one of my favourite things, studying what people have to say about the product and then trying to make it better. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#better #consumer #favourite #getting #i

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

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment. ↗

— Peter Singer

#buying #consequences #consumer #doing #family

What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#always #ashes #consumed #couple #fire

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

#consumer #consumption #end #far #interest

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#bigger #consumers #into #magazines #mold

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