Sanjay Kumar Quotes

The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.

I am the largest market shareholder of clothing in the U.K. and I am not a destination shop for food. If the clothing market is affected - and it has been - and I hold my market share mathematically, then fine, I am doing no worse than the market is doing, which is exactly the case, but I'm losing revenue.

I think every market has lot of things in common, and at the same time, every market has lot of different things.

For a long time, companies ignored the fact that 80 percent of sporting goods are sold to the casual consumer.

The easier things are to buy, the more we consume.

I always think people vote with their wallets and their pocketbooks.

I like the PC market. It's a big market, but it's a very volatile market as well.

Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it's got a long time.

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.

Consumer habits are key to understanding how to launch a product.

Women are clearly the major consumers in far more than just female categories. It doesn't matter whether it is purchases of cars, cosmetics, or even products for men, female consumption power is the leading consumption power in the world. Any company that overlooks the woman as the decision maker is making a huge mistake.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.

In the U.S., search engines are king. That is because everyone already knows what they are looking for. Brands have been around for a long time.

Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them, 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.

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.

We women make the lion's share of household purchases in this country. We ourselves drive billions of dollars a year in sales.

Since the beginning, HTC has focused on developing strong research and development capabilities and keeping a close eye on consumer, market and technology trends.

If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth.

The women are at an advantage - we represent the buying power in this country.

We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.

The habits of the American consumer are changing; that's a reality.

Those underlings who in all the preceding ages of history had formed the herds of slaves and serfs, of paupers and beggars, became the buying public, for whose favor the businessmen canvass. They are the customers who are “always right,” the patrons who have the power to make poor suppliers rich and rich suppliers poor.