#consumer

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16) ↗

— Confucius

#china #consumerism #greed #greed

Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into it, much the same way we lobbied for nonsmoking areas ten years ago. ↗

— Kalle Lasn

#consumerism #advertising

I don't really like to talk specifically about customers by name - but we work with nearly all the leading manufacturers of consumer products worldwide and at quite a detailed engineering level. ↗

— David Milne

#consumer #customers #detailed #engineering #i

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes. ↗

— Dave Barry

#big #big business #business #consumer #nader

The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment. ↗

— Michael Schudson

#amount #available #consumer #consumers #depends

American consumers benefit from free trade and investment. ↗

— John Shadegg

#american consumers #benefit #consumers #free #free trade

It's crucial to keep in mind that the hundreds of millions of dollars now spent on prescription drug advertisements are ultimately paid for by consumers in the form a higher drug prices. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#crucial #dollars #form #higher #hundreds

The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now paid only by Americans. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#american #american consumers #consumers #goal #inflated

There is no disputing the fact that American consumers pay 30 to 300 percent more for the same prescription drugs as our counterparts in Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#american consumers #canada #consumers #counterparts #disputing

While American taxes pay for much of the research and development that goes into creating the new, life-saving drugs, American consumers continue to subsidize the cost of the drugs for consumers across the world. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#american #american consumers #consumers #continue #cost