#consumer

I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#competition #considered #consumers #create #domestic

I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#audience #completes #consumers #film #give

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. ↗

— Daryl Hannah

#big corporations #chose #consumer #corporations #influence

So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#build #closer #consumers #cross-platform #desktop

And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers. ↗

— John Hutton

#broader #business #consumers #costs #easy

We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone. ↗

— Richard Branson

#believe #box #british #computer #consumers

Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire. ↗

— Bob Iger

#dire #incredibly #keeping #simple

Netflix, Amazon, iTunes - whatever platforms emerge - we are looking at as having the same potential that home video had for the movie business. Which means there are entirely new opportunities to monetize our capital investment in content and do so in ways that work for distributors, for consumers and for creators. ↗

— Bob Iger

#business #capital #capital investment #consumers #content

People go to Disney because they know its brand attributes. We believe we have an opportunity to go with our content directly to consumers. ↗

— Bob Iger

#because #believe #brand #consumers #content

Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#consumerism #free-will #god #goddess #greek