Nathan Blecharczyk Quotes

The consumer, so it is said, is the king each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done.

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.

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

The fact is that, under a capitalistic system, the ultimate bosses are the consumers. The sovereign is not the state, it is the people.

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

The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.

The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.

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.

It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely.

We like to think that a free market's greatest strength is its self-corrective nature.

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.

If consumers make better choices, the marketplace will change.

As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy.

Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price.

Choices abound in the free market. Choice creates real and immediate accountability.

Commerce is a powerful, underestimated form of expression. We use it to cast a vote with every product we buy. It's a direct expression of democracy. This is why our mission at Shopify is to protect that form of expression and make it better for everyone, not just for those we agree with.

You cannot control the spending habits of people. It is a free society, after all, and people should have right to spend their money as they wish.

You have to follow the consumer, and the consumer will be in control.

The free market is fundamentally humane and democratic, driven by ideas and millions of individual choices about what to do with our money which defy those who benefit from the status quo.

There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people.

The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.

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.

What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to their own will. The market gives people what the people want instead of what other people think they ought to want. At the bottom of many criticisms of the market economy is really lack of belief in freedom itself.

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

The market system makes all producers responsible to the consumer.