Partnering with Rent the Runway’s innovative model, combined with their affinity amongst millennials, provides an exciting opportunity for us. Together, we’re helping the next generation of luxury consumers discover and fall in love with designer fashion.
I do not like to use the term ‘Free-to-play.’ I have come to realize that there is a degree of insincerity to consumers with this terminology, since so-called ‘Free-to-play’ should be referred to more accurately as ‘Free-to-start.’
Consumers recognize, and don’t like, corporate lying.
Right now we think that rates will stay low, that you’ll be able to get a mortgage below seven percent and that’s kicked off a refinance boom that’s going to put more money in the pockets of consumers.
We can’t allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers… We must do what we can to fix this problem.
Older consumers don’t want to be treated like teenagers; what’s more, they don’t want to believe they fall into any niche at all.
Because financially capable consumers ultimately contribute to a stable economic and financial system as well as improve their own financial situations, it’s clear that the Federal Reserve has a significant stake in financial education.
Consumers don’t give a damn about what device they’re playing on. They just want to play it everywhere. They want to be playing on the console and then take it off to the bus.
We need to be much more robust consumers.
The entertainment industry is always targeted at young people. Understandably so, as they are the key consumers. The young are the ones who are falling in love, starting out in life; older people aren’t. Nobody thinks, ‘Now I’m going to write a film about an older person.’
As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that’s more like a spice.
When I look at the chaotic and volatile debate right now, both in Germany and around the world, my impression and concern is that the daily barrage of proposals and political statements is making markets and consumers even more nervous. Still, Brussels is pressing for a joint European approach.
Consumers deserve the opportunity to watch their program of choice.
Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don’t already want to buy.
Our main concern is that demand for credit be fulfilled in ways that are actually beneficial to consumers and not harmful to them.
Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
Consumers are increasingly programming their own entertainment and content experiences.
Until the company believes in itself, AOL didn’t have its own space and identity in the marketplace. The opportunity is to get out from under the negative history and figure out the value AOL offers for consumers and for publishers and advertisers.
Comcast NBCUniversal has an incredible array of brands and ways to deliver those brands and experiences for consumers.
We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
It’s up to all of us, the consumers, to take charge of our health. It’s almost like voting. It’s your responsibility.
We cannot be mere consumers of good governance, we must be participants; we must be co-creators.
Citizens and consumers are demanding that climate change and environmental issues be taken seriously.
A social contract is the way out of this dilemma for corporations that want to lead in the 21st century by showing consumers how seriously they take customer loyalty and goodwill.
Unless there is a strong movement of citizens, who are the consumers of justice, we are hardly likely to see any serious judicial reforms in this country.
The social business marketplace is effectively forcing brands to engage with consumers on the basis of something that is meaningful to them. More often than not, this takes the form of some core value that finds expression in a non-profit cause.
As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another – until you’ve got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.
Women are the primary healthcare consumers in the country. 80 percent of all healthcare decisions are made by women.
Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.
With every new social network, smartphone feature, and digital diversion, innovation-driven consumer companies must constantly redefine their categories and, in some cases, redefine themselves to ensure they remain both relevant and differentiated in the minds of consumers.
Most car companies in the world are saying they’re going to electric vehicles. That’s an inevitability. The question is, ‘Can we do that in a way that’s going to be really good for our economy and for American workers and American consumers?’
Patent monopoly creates a lot of problems. It allows the patentee to charge the maximum to consumers. This may not be a problem if the patented product is a luxury item, like parts that go into a smartphone, but can violate basic human rights if it involves things such as life-saving drugs.
The solution as consumers is – perhaps surprisingly – to take adverts very, very seriously. We should ask ourselves what it is that we find lovely in them – the visions of friendship, togetherness, repose, or whatever. And then consider what would actually help us find these qualities in our lives.
Regardless of how it’s done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you’re in the transaction business. They’re wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy.
In my business, the cheaper the ticket price the better. I’d love for more consumers to walk into an amphitheater, park, have a beer and eat a hot dog. There’s no advantage to me to have anything but sold-out shows.
In the coming years, if not sooner, social media will become a powerful tool that consumers will aggressively use to influence business attitudes and force companies into greater social responsibility – and, I suggest, move us towards a more sustainable practice of capitalism.
I say to consumers: instead of relying totally on critics, drink what you like and like what you drink.
Costs should always be presented up front so that consumers can make informed choices and get a fairer deal.
I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones.
Consumers want safe and really efficient automobiles.
I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.
There’s absolutely no doubt consumers have more choice than ever, and the standards of all that provide food have improved over time.
Google is a company whose very existence depends on innovation – on inventing things that are new and didn’t exist before – and on refining existing ideas and technologies to allow consumers to do things they couldn’t do before.
Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline.
We’re giving consumers the tools they need to see medical professionals virtually, to Skype with the doctor instead of wait in her office, to self-monitor vital signs, to connect with health-related communities, and to choose physicians based on reliable data about outcomes and cost.
When the 1929 crash wiped out disposable income, there were not enough consumers to fuel a recovery.
We do a lot of consumer research. Consumers believe the smartphone will be the remote, meaning that it will orchestrate a lot of things. So maybe you will take your connectivity with you to the car.
The YouTube revolution isn’t a revolution in content consumption, although there’s a huge number of content consumers. It’s about how anybody with a camera or a smartphone can create a video and share it with the whole world.
In 2009, UnitedHealth, a leading insurance company, paid $350 million to settle lawsuits brought by the American Medical Association and other physician groups for shortchanging consumers and physicians for medical services outside its preferred network.
If I want to make a product that is appealing to consumers, like a piece of clothing or a video game, that’s fad driven. Some companies do it, and I don’t know how they do it, but it’s generally a bad place to invest.
As consumers, we are making choices,and we allow things to exist, and we celebrate the existence of things. And we can also boycott those things we don’t want to be part of.
