Jeremy Stoppelman Quotes

There's simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerlessness because so much power is now being put in the hands of the consumer. But the important thing that gets lost with some of these business owners who are very upset with us is it's the whole picture that counts.

I think Yelp is neither good nor bad for the food industry. I find it useless.

I will tell you flat out that I continually find Yelp and products like it to be increasingly worthless to me as a consumer.

We consumers have to send a message every day of what we want and what we don't.

Each consumer has the power of their wallet and their voice. They can exercise that.

We marked a milestone for consumer empowerment when we began to publish consumer complaint narratives which allow people to share in their own words their experiences in the consumer financial marketplace.

There are so many businesses that are succeeding on Yelp that don't pay us a dollar, and we're really excited about that.

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

Social enables word of mouth at an unprecedented scale. Its most powerful effect, through reviews and recommendations, is to put product quality and value for money as the key to success in commerce. Social brings a level of transparency that prevents marketers from advertising their way to success without underlying product quality.

But in another, I think a woman's going to go into a shop to find a coat or a jacket and I just don't think she's not going to go into a shop because of a bad review she probably didn't even read.

I'm all for consumer rights. I get very aggravated if I don't get a good service.

Yelp is in a very nice spot: local data, and especially review data, is one of the killer apps on mobile phones.

I think the big force is going to be consumer buying power.

My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.

As parents and as consumers, we have the right and the power to pressure the entertainment industry to respond to our needs. Americans, after all, should insist that every corporate giant - whether it produces chemicals or records - accept responsibility for what it produces.

The consumer is the only man in our economy without a high-powered lobbyist in Washington.

As consumers, we are making choices, and we allow things to exist, and we celebrate the existence of things. And we can also boycott those things we don't want to be part of.

The creation of a consumer agency, structured similarly to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, levels the playing field. It gives consumers a powerful advocate at the federal level.

If consumers are strong, if consumers are protected, if they can trust the marketplace and feel confident that they're not being cheated here and there, then consumers can drive this economy forward.

Dishonesty in trailers is more than a moral issue, it's a practical one. If you don't deliver in the film what you offered in the trailer, you'll get bad word-of-mouth.

Research on the Internet, research what people say about the vintage stores, look online to see if customer service is good because that's really important. Also to see online what other customers say.

In consumer protection, you can say it hurts business; that is, it makes them comply with the law, which is actually what we want them to do, but it helps consumers.

I think that, in the end, the consumer's going to win on the Internet.

The consumer is the absolute king in everything you do.

Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.