Explore a collection of the most beloved and motivational quotes and sayings about Consumers. Share these powerful messages with your loved ones on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or on your personal blog, and inspire the world with their wisdom. We've compiled the Top 100 Consumers Quotes and Sayings from 88 influential authors, including Diane Von Furstenberg,Mark Joyner,Ludwig Von Mises,Tibor Kalman,Scott Ritter, for you to enjoy and share.

The Chinese consumer is everybody. It's very simple. By Diane Von Furstenberg Chinese Consumer Simple

There is no substitute for an ecstatic consumer. By Mark Joyner Consumer Substitute Ecstatic

To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position. By Ludwig Von Mises Consumers Assign Proper Place Society

The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production. They are at the helm and steer the ship. A superficial observer would believe that they are supreme. But they are not. They are bound to obey unconditionally the captain's orders. The captain is the consumer ... [Consumers] make poor people rich and rich people poor. They determine precisely what should be produced, in what quality, and in what quantities. By Ludwig Von Mises Entrepreneurs Direction Economic Affairs Market

Consumer culture is contradiction in terms By Tibor Kalman Consumer Terms Culture Contradiction

We have become a nation not of citizens but of consumers. By Scott Ritter Consumers Nation Citizens

Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers. By Seth Godin Find Customers Products

The consumers are merciless. They never buy in order to benefit a less efficient producer and to protect him against the consequences of his failure to manage better. They want to be served as well as possible. And the working of the capitalist system forces the entrepreneur to obey the orders issued by the consumers. By Ludwig Von Mises Merciless Consumers Buy Benefit Efficient

Today we live in a society that seems to be less and less concerned with reality. We drink instant coffee and reconstituted orange juice. We buy our vegetables on cardboard trays covered with plastic. But perhaps the most dehumanizing thing of all is that we have allowed the media to call us consumersugly. No! I don't want to be a consumer. Anger consumes. Forest fires consume. Cancer consumes. By Madeleine L'engle Today Reality Live Society Concerned

By being customer-focused instead of retail-focused, or factory-focused, a manufacturer or merchant can widely increase its offerings, thus increasing share of wallet. By Seth Godin Retailfocused Factoryfocused Offerings Wallet Customerfocused

Consumer habits are key to understanding how to launch a product. By Charles Duhigg Consumer Product Habits Key Understanding

Everything starts with the customer. By Lou Gerstner Customer Starts

Customers are human and humans can view situations in unexpected ways. By Marilyn Suttle Customers View Situations Unexpected Human

Customer results contribute to population results. What we do for our customers is our contribution to the quality of life of the community. By Mark Friedman Results Contribute Population Community Customer

Choose your customers, choose your future. By Seth Godin Choose Customers Future

As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed. By Jonathan Ive Discerning Design Greed Consumers Incredibly

A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell. By Esther Dyson Hell Worker Paradise Consumer

We aren't into the consumer space because that space is largely dominated by search and advertising, and it has a consumer face to it. By Jack Dangermond Advertising Consumer Space Largely Dominated

When companies try to guess what consumers want, they essentially make the choice for consumers. By Sheena Iyengar Consumers Companies Guess Essentially Make

The attitude inherent in consumerism is that of swallowing the whole world. The consumer is the eternal suckling crying for the bottle. By Erich Fromm World Attitude Inherent Consumerism Swallowing

Our customers are not our competitors. We compete for them, not with them. By T Jay Taylor Competitors Customers Compete

Consumer society begins at the moment when what was once the province or function of the family and community migrates to the marketplace. By John Mcknight Consumer Marketplace Society Begins Moment

Quality products and personalized attention secures retail customers. By Rajen Jani Quality Customers Products Personalized Attention

We start with our consumers and spend an exorbitant amount of time talking with them, trying to figure out what's driving them, finding out where they are and how they're changing things. By Cathy O'brien Finding Things Start Consumers Spend

Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you. By Daniel Ek Put Focus Consumers Listen

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something. By Harold Coffin Consumer Shopper Sore

Protect the consumer by owning the product all the way from the soil to the table. By Henry J. Heinz Protect Table Consumer Owning Product

Everyone is a customer for somebody, or a supplier to somebody. By W. Edwards Deming Customer Supplier

A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product. By William S. Burroughs Product Consumer Society Simplfying Degrading

Everyone is a buyer, everyone's a potential purchaser and everyone's a potential vendor. By Joe Hockey Potential Buyer Vendor Purchaser

If consumers are asked to make greater sacrifices than industry, this country is going to have its greatest shortage of all a shortage of consumers. By Betty Furness Shortage Industry Consumers Asked Make

Obsess about customers, not competitors. By Jeff Bezos Obsess Customers Competitors

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.' By Sinclair Lewis People Customer Buy

All of us experience the sad effects of blind submission to consumerism. In the first place it represents crass materialism. At the same time it represents a radical dissatisfaction because one quickly learns that the more one possesses, the more one wants, while deeper aspirations remain unsatisfied and perhaps even stifled. By Pope John Paul Ii Consumerism Experience Sad Effects Blind

American consumers benefit from disparity & exploitation. I benefit from disparity & exploitation & so does my family. there is no way to be a consumer in this country without causing pain" --casey gray - author of Discount - & my New HERO By Casey Gray Exploitation Disparity American Benefit Discount

I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value. By Gary Vaynerchuk Mapped Acquisition Consumers Verge Battlefield

The competitor is our friend and the customer is our enemy. By Dwayne Andreas Enemy Competitor Friend Customer

Companies and their brands need to reach out and speak directly to consumers, to honor their values, and to form meaningful relationships with them. They must become architects of community, consistently demonstrating the values that their customer community expects in exchange for their loyalty and purchases. By Simon Mainwaring Companies Consumers Brands Reach Speak

If consumers were more empowered, they would take more responsibility for their health. By Anne Wojcicki Empowered Health Consumers Responsibility

The reader is not the customer. The retailer is the customer. So I try to have as much interaction with the retailers as possible because those are my customers. By Kelly Sue Deconnick Customer Reader Customers Retailer Retailers

Your customer is anyone who depends on you, or who you depend on for success. By Brian Tracy Success Customer Depends Depend

Listen to your customers, not your competitors. By Joel Spolsky Listen Customers Competitors

The new breed of consumer is not as trusting, as loyal, or as malleable as those of the past. By Margaret Mark Trusting Loyal Past Breed Consumer

The customer invents nothing. New products and new services come from the producer. By W. Edwards Deming Customer Invents Producer Products Services

Consumers do not buy one brand of soap, or coffee, or detergent. They have a repertory of four or five brands, and move from one to another. They almost never buy a brand which has not been admitted to their repertory during its first year on the market. By David Ogilvy Consumers Soap Coffee Detergent Buy

You should think of your customers as partners, or better still, family. By Victor Kiam Family Partners Customers

I'm willing to submit to the sovereignty of the consumer, but I just want to know what they say. By Michael Hyatt Consumer Submit Sovereignty

Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users' By Edward Tufte Users Customers Drug Dealers Software

As a writer of criticism, the consumer thing is the least interesting thing, but as a critic, the single worst thing you can do is send a reader to waste time and money on something - even if it's something you personally love. You have to indicate the reasons why you love it and they'll hate it. By Jonathan Gold Thing Criticism Critic Love Writer

I am not a retailer - I have never run a store; I have never understood the full details of how you can make a consumer satisfied. To build a company, to do deals, to motivate people: this is what I am able to do. By Stefano Pessina Retailer Store Satisfied Run Understood

No longer do companies study consumers' psyches only by asking people what they think about technology and how they use it. Now they conduct observational research, dispatching anthropologists to employ their ethnographic skills by interviewing, watching and videotaping consumers in their natural habitats. By Katie Hafner Longer Companies Study Consumers Psyches

End-users not technologies shape the market. Consequently marketers need to stay abreast not only of technological developments but also of the way people respond to them. By Matt Haig Endusers Market Technologies Shape Marketers

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better. By Jeff Bezos Party Hosts Invited Guests Customers

Consumers are not loyal to cheap commodities. They crave the unique, the remarkable, and the human. By Seth Godin Consumers Commodities Loyal Cheap Unique

Unconscious consumerism preys on the uncentered. Once we lose touch with our center, we don't know who we are anymore, and marketers fill the void by telling us who we ought to be. By Jeff Brown Unconscious Uncentered Consumerism Preys Center

Against the onslaught of consumerism, against all the overwhelming siren voices that beckon, our only weapon is to exercise our right to choose. And to make the right choices, we need to be able to think, to reflect, to pause, to imagine, because what is being sold to you is not just toothpaste or deodorant or a bathroom fixture, but your next president or representative, your children's future, your way and view of life. By Azar Nafisi Consumerism Beckon Choose Onslaught Overwhelming

We need to be much more robust consumers. By Beeban Kidron Consumers Robust

Consumers are increasingly feeling that they are being taken for a ride. By Larry Craig Consumers Ride Increasingly Feeling

During difficult economic times, consumers gravitate toward the brands they know, the brands they love and trust. By Muhtar Kent Brands Times Consumers Trust Difficult

In every business your customers are the road. Your customers are the life blood of your business. Without your customers you have nowhere to go. In fact, without your life blood, you won't have a life. Without them you are dead. By Clay Clark Customers Life Road Business Blood

The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad. By Umberto Eco Imitation America Ideology Establish Reassurance

Businesses are interacting with consumers to socialize rather than learn about customer expectations to in turn, deliver tangible value, improve product experiences, and invest in long-term relationships, By Brian Solis Businesses Turn Deliver Improve Experiences

Good marketers see consumers as complete human beings with all the dimensions real people have. By Jonah Sachs Good Marketers Consumers Complete Human

If you run a business, put on top your employees, then your consumers, and then your shareholders. By Richard Branson Business Put Employees Consumers Shareholders

It was tricky to navigate this uncharted terrain with undefined customers, but we were lucky to sell to a segment that hadn't been defined up front. There was no obvious way to target this underserved market, but we met this challenge by going very broad. By Mikkel Svane Customers Front Tricky Navigate Uncharted

When people talk about successful retailers and those that are not so successful, the customer determines at the end of the day who is successful and for what reason. By Gerry Harvey Successful Reason People Talk Retailers

My own feeling on the consumer is that he - he or she looks at what it costs them to pay their bills every month as opposed to how much debt they have. By Kenneth Langone Feeling Consumer Costs Pay Bills

Consumers today are less responsive to traditional media. They are embracing new technologies that empower them with more control over how and when they are marketed to. By Jim Stengel Consumers Media Today Responsive Traditional

Consumers still buy products whose advertising promises them value for money, beauty, nutrition, relief from suffering, social status and so on. By David Ogilvy Beauty Nutrition Consumers Money Relief

If we do not know who the customer is, we do not know what quality is. By Eric Ries Customer Quality

When Sony was introducing the boom box, the company gathered a group of potential customers and held a focus group on what colour the new product should be: black or yellow. After some discussion among the group of likely buyers, everyone agreed that consumers would better respond to yellow. After the session, the facilitator thanked the group, and then mentioned that, as a bonus, they were welcome to take a free boom box on the way out. There were two piles of boom boxes: yellow and black. Every person took a black boom box.'5 Clearly what people say isn't always a true reflection of what they think, so we need a way of getting into these shadowy issues and seeing how they affect the customer's goals. By Matt Watkinson Group Sony Boom Yellow Black

Global interconnectedness has led to the emergence of a new political power, that of consumers and their associations. It is good for people to realize that purchasing is always a moral - and not simply economic - act. By Pope Benedict Xvi Global Power Associations Act Interconnectedness

It's not business to consumer, it's not business to business, it's people to people By Brian Solis Business Consumer People

We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it. By Steve Largent Demand Business Shaping Consumer Respond

More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment. By David Korten Food Consumers Life Health Environment

1. Do consumers recognize that they have the problem you are trying to solve?2. If there was a solution, would they buy it?3. Would they buy it from us?4. Can we build a solution for that problem? By Ries Eric Buy Solution Problem Solve Consumers

For innovators, understanding the job is to understand what consumers care most about in that moment of trying to make progress. By Clayton M Christensen Innovators Understanding Progress Job Understand

When we call a capitalist society a consumers' democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the entrepreneurs and capitalists, can only be acquired by means of the consumers' ballot, held daily in the market-place. By Ludwig Von Mises Consumers Production Ballot Held Marketplace

Being in the consumer business helps us groom talent in areas like marketing, finance and logistics. We can benchmark our outsourcing business to our consumer business and its best practices. By Azim Premji Business Marketing Finance Logistics Consumer

Satisfied customers are apathetic. Loyal customers will be your advocate. By Jeffrey Gitomer Satisfied Apathetic Customers Loyal Advocate

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice. By Anita Roddick Consumers Choice Told Effectively Huge

It isn't the consumers' job to know what they want. By Steve Jobs Consumers Job

People. Products. Profits. In that order. By Ken Goldstein People Products Profits Order

As consumers we get more demanding all the time. We want better quality. We want it faster. And cheaper. Plus, we want more choices. Whoever comes along that can satisfy all these 'wants' gets our business. By Price Pritchett Time Consumers Demanding Quality Faster

Certainly, the perception of the average consumer is a vital part of every business, and if a retailer, service provider, or corporation is sending out signals that its approach is lackadaisical, its methods halfhearted, and its execution indifferent, the business in question could suffer severe-and in some cases, irreparable-losses. By Michael Levine Irreparablelosses Business Retailer Service Provider

Power is winning the battle over who owns the customer: the brand or the retailer. By Leonard Lauder Power Customer Retailer Winning Battle

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A new model is starting to take root and grow, one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more power to guide these choices. I call this emerging model 'The Mesh.' By Lisa Gansky Choices Grow Tools Information Model

Your customers are responsible for your company's reason for existing. By Marilyn Suttle Existing Customers Responsible Company Reason

Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race. By Frederic Bastiat Interests Consumer Treat Race Economic

The system of consumerism may seem like an immovable fact of modern life. But it is not. That the system was manufactured suggests that we can reshape those forces to create healthier, more sustainable system with a more fulfilling goal than 'more stuff By Rachel Botsman Life System Consumerism Immovable Fact

The IT industry is driven by consumer demand. By Renee James Demand Industry Driven Consumer

Never forget that absolutely everything you do is for your customers. Make every decision - even decisions about whether to expand the business, raise money, or promote someone - according to what's best for your customers. By Derek Sivers Customers Forget Absolutely Make Business

On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by maintaining such a balance between produce and consumption as will give the greatest exchangeable value to the results of the national industry. By Thomas Malthus Give Observed Consumers Industry Specific

Everyone is in the business of customer satisfaction.Wh o are your customers and how are they doing? By Brian Tracy Business Satisfactionwh Customer Customers

While everyone's focusing on keeping the boss happy, who's focusing on keeping the customer happy? By James Hunter Keeping Happy Focusing Boss Customer

I think we are living in a time where the consumer has lots of choices, whether it's coffee, newspapers or whatever it is. And there is parity in the market place, and as a result of that, the consumer is beginning to make decisions, not just on what things cost and the convenience of it. By Howard Schultz Choices Coffee Newspapers Consumer Living

There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be. By J.g. Ballard People Signs Consumerism Satisfied Resent

Consumers learn the value of being sure that what you want to buy is what you buy. By Maelle Gavet Consumers Buy Learn

When you know who your customers are, that can give you an edge on the competition. By Alain Bouchard Competition Customers Give Edge