“To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the income gains of typical American workers.” ShouldFirstsSocialSecurityBenefitsGainsIncreaseImpactWorkersIncomeConsumersTypicalSocial SecurityInflationAmerican Workers Author:Steven Rattner
“I do not think it is any benefit for artists or fans to have all the new, wide distribution channels in the online world controlled by those who have controlled the old, narrower ones, .. This is especially true if they achieve that control by leveraging their dominance in content or conduit space in an anticompetitive way to control the new, independent music services that are attempting to enhance the consumer's experience of music.” IfsThinkingWorldWayArtistSpaceFansAchieveBenefitsIndependentWideConsumersOnlineControlledDistributionAttemptingDominanceIndependent Music Author:Orrin Hatch
“Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result from the transformation of matter in form, location, or availability (intellectually or temporally). It is these transformations that create economic benefits valued by consumers, and whoever arranges such transformations contributes to the value of things, whether his hands actually come into contact with physical objects or not.” MenDoeMatterHandsFormValuesProcessResultsEconomicObjectsMaterialsBenefitsTransformationProductionsHandleContactProducersConsumersLocationAvailability Author:Thomas Sowell
“Low-wage workers are also consumers. It's just common sense: when these workers have more take-home pay it leads to spending that trickles up to benefit many small, locally owned businesses.” HomeCommonPayBenefitsLowsWorkersSpendingCommon SenseConsumers Author:Mark Price
“American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.” IfsMightGreaterProductsBenefitsRateTraditionalAlternativesConsumersFixedMortgageLenders Author:Alan Greenspan
“My object, having a surplus to deal with, is to consider how I can deal with it to the greatest advantage to the consumer - how, without inflicting any injury on Canada, I can secure the most substantial benefit to this country, to the manufacturing, to the commercial, and to the agricultural interests. The real way in which we can benefit the working and manufacturing classes is, unquestionably, by removing the burden that presses on the springs of manufactures and commerce.” WayI CanRealCountryInterestDealsClassObjectsBenefitsSpringAdvantagePressesBurdenSecureConsumersInjuryCanadaCommerceManufacturingSurplus Author:Robert Peel
“Consumers are realizing the benefits of in-car entertainment and navigation systems. When used properly, these products are great tools that help drivers focus on the road. Consumers need to remember to follow state laws, watch the road and use common sense when putting these and other products to work.” NeedsStatesHelpingUseRememberLawUsedRealizingCommonWatchesFocusCarProductsBenefitsToolsEntertainmentCommon SenseConsumersDriversNavigation Author:Gary Shapiro
“The people who benefit from this state of affairs have been at pains to convince us that the agricultural practices and policies that have almost annihilated the farming population have greatly benefited the population of food consumers. But more and more consumers are now becoming aware that our supposed abundance of cheap and healthful food is to a considerable extent illusory.” PeopleHas BeensStatesPainPracticePolicyBecomingBenefitsEnvironmentalAffairPopulationConsumersAbundanceConvinceSustainabilityFarmingIllusoryConvince Us Author:Wendell Berry
“When the trust is high, you get the trust dividend. Investors invest in brands people trust. Consumers buy more from companies they trust, they spend more with companies they trust, they recommend companies they trust, and they give companies they trust the benefit of the doubt when things go wrong.” PeopleGivingCompanyDoubtBenefitsBrandsConsumersInvestorsDividendsWhen Things Go WrongBenefit Of The Doubt Author:Stephen Covey
“What college boils down to is a brand name stamped on the graduate for the benefit of corporate consumers.” NamesCollegeBenefitsBrandsConsumersCorporateGraduatesBrand Names Author:Theodore Beale
“I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair share of business prosperity. But it either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anybody can get any benefit from it.” ShareDutyOughtBenefitsOrdinaryFairsWorkersProsperityProducersConsumersEvidentFair Share Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“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.” WantWellsOrderForceProtectBenefitsConsequenceEntrepreneurProducersManageConsumersCapitalistEfficient Book:Bureaucracy: The Economist Source: Bureaucracy: The Economist
“Consumers do not buy products. They buy product benefits.” ProductsBenefitsConsumersCopywriting Author:David Ogilvy
“If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.” IfsI CanRunningGamesRoomsBenefitsWindowMachinesConsumersLiving RoomSteamDevelopers Author:Gabe Newell
“There was a time traditionally - say, GM in the 1950s - it was trying to develop a consumer base that would be loyal and lasting and they were thinking in terms of an institution that would remain and grow and thrive in the society. By now, a lot of the investment firms - bankers, hedge funds - are perfectly happy to destroy what they're in and come out with huge, tremendous benefits. That's a new stage of capitalism.” ThinkingTryingWould BeGrowsTermStageHugeBenefitsCapitalismInstitutionsInvestmentConsumersFirmThriveFundLastingLoyalBankersHedge Fund Author:Noam Chomsky
“It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift was made toward the cultivation of unbounded desire. We must appreciate this to realize that late modern consumption, consumption as we now know it, is not fundamentally about materialism or the consumption of physical goods. Affluence and consumer-oriented capitalism have moved us well beyond the undeniable efficiencies and benefits of refrigeration and indoor plumbing.” KnowsWellsMadeDesireRealizingModernCenturyBenefitsLateCapitalismAppreciateMovedConsumersMaterialismGoodsConsumptionEfficiencyConsumerismTwentieth CenturyNineteenth CenturyOverconsumptionCultivationAffluencePlumbingIndoor Plumbing Author:Rodney Clapp
“We don't want insurance companies becoming monopolies looking for favoritism in a cronyistic way at Washington. We want health insurers, hospitals, doctors, all providers of health care benefits competing against each other for our business as consumers.” WayWantCareCompanyBecomingBenefitsDoctorsHealth CareConsumersHospitalsCompetingMonopolyProvidersInsurance CompaniesFavoritism Author:Paul Ryan
“We are an industry that has historically been at the forefront of defining new media environments in ways that benefit consumers and move our entire business model forward. We must ensure that while we are moving quickly, we are also moving smartly.” WayMovingBusinessEnvironmentMediaIndustryBenefitsModelsConsumersDefiningBusiness ModelsNew Media Author:Jim Stengel
“Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.” GivenForcePoorRiskBenefitsEnvironmentalConsumersCorporationsMakersPollutionUnsuspectingMoney Maker Author:Cesar Chavez