Nothing has value in itself. The consumer confers value on it by seeking to acquire it. Hence, the value of a thing is never objective, but always subjective.
The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.
Cabinet members are soon overwhelmed by the insistent demands of running their departments. On the whole, a period in high office consumers intellectual capital; it does not create it. . . . The less ministers know at the outset, the more dependent they are on the only sources of available knowledge; the permanent officials.
Define a winning proposition that is consumer right and delivers margin accretion.
Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it?
Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
One God, one market, one truth, one consumer.
Consumers want a better world, not just better widgets.
You don't drive an economy by consuming - the consumer is not the engine, the consumer is the caboose.
All of us as citizens have to be consumers and judges.
A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're making, don't make it.
If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.
Given that ever-broadening array of options and alternatives, as consumers and investors, we are often bewildered. We need guidance. That's where today's brands come in. They are not so much signals about a particular product, they are signals about good judgment, trustworthiness. A big brand, whether it's Schwab or Disney, is becoming analogous to a portal that sells us advice about where we can find great deals.
Women are underserved and underestimated as consumers.
If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires a privilege and at the cost of the whole community; it can make sure of profits not altogether due to the productive services rendered, but composed in part of an actual tax upon consumers for its private profit' which tax it commonly shares with the authority that thus unjustly lent its support.
The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of products. (128)
I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal, as fragmented people make for better consumers.
Why don't we save and invest in our future and start making the things that millions of Chinese consumers are going to want in the future.
American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.