Ludwig von Mises Quotes

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

Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

When you offer consumers choice, let them vote with their wallets.

The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.

Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending . . . when women do better, economies do better.

Everything is about consumerism. If there's money to be made, there will be an audience and people will feel empowered and I truly believe that women haven't fully tapped into their potential as a market.

What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to remain capitalists have to learn to dance to it.

But the real focus should be on people who are buying today because the base is so big it will take a long time for any change materialize on an overall basis.

Business is in itself a power.

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

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

The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.

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

But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

The dollar votes more times than the man.

Very few people think about politics all the time. Some even skip it at election time. But we are all in the market. Every day, we are in the market.

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

Women as consumers are a very powerful force.

Both in the short-run and the long-run, college students, collectively, have enormous spending power.

Want and effective demand are not the same thing. If they were, the poorest nations would be the ones to display the most vigorous demand.

Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence when it loses its customers.

Big business always serve - directly or indirectly - the masses.

[The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is directed.