Consumer Spending Quotes

It's incredible how much money you can make on a rubber toy.

Walmart's period of explosive growth coincided with decades of wage stagnation and deindustrialization. By applying relentless downward pressure on prices and wages, the company came to dominate both consumer spending and employment in small towns and rural areas across the middle of the country.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

By putting downward pressure on interest rates, the Fed is trying to make financial conditions more accommodative - supporting asset values and lower borrowing costs for households and businesses and thus encouraging the spending that spurs job creation and a stronger recovery.

As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

When the 1929 crash wiped out disposable income, there were not enough consumers to fuel a recovery.

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.

Until Americans feel that their core asset - their homes - are stabilized, they are not going to have the animal spirits and they will continue to have less buying power.

Pay-per-view is bit of a gamble.

Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.

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

A lot of people got a lot of money around Kansas City, Missouri. If we didn't, KC Trends would be out of business.

The elderly of the baby boomer generation will not put up with the traditional discrimination against the elderly. They have the demographic and they have the dollars.

I'm an economist by training. And I know that what works is a permanent increase in buying power.

You are the biggest part of the population in the state. You create its wealth.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

As homeowners see the value of their homes decline, they become more likely to delay purchases of the big items - like automobiles, electronics and home appliances - that are ballasts of the American economy. When those purchases decline, large manufacturing firms, suddenly short on funds, could begin laying off employees.

In flush times, a rising tide of consumption can compensate for less than optimal branding, positioning, pricing or segmentation.

If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.

I have recommended cutting the tax on cell phones and TVs for every Florida family so they can save around $43 a year for spending as little as $100 a month on cell phone and TV bills combined.

Every single person who has ever walked down the street with a FEED bag has purchased it. I think that's really relevant because it means that you have got to make that choice to spend that money on that product.

One of the best ways to grow this economy is to put money in people's pockets.

There's plenty of juice to keep this economy going.