Consumer Confidence Quotes:

The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile.

- Julie Bishop

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Economy, Resilient, Consumers, Consumer Confidence

Consumer confidence in an industry can be a very fragile thing. It only takes a few builders who promise but don't deliver, who cheat rather than perform, who delay until the warranty expires rather than repair, to damage the reputation of an entire industry.

- Virginia Knauer

topic: Promise, Delay, Damage, Fragile Things, Warranty

This is the crisis! Difficulty getting credit, slow growth, high unemployment, low consumer confidence-these are challenges entrepreneurs can overcome with hard work, smart risk and tenacious teamwork. This is precisely what entrepreneurs do!

- Oliver DeMille

topic: Teamwork, Smart, Hard Work, Work Smart, Consumer Confidence

I also believe that it's the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food systems. And I believe that the consumer should have strong confidence in our food systems.

- Ann Veneman

source: "Interview with Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman". "American Morning" with Soledad O'Brien, www.cnn.com. December 31, 2003.

topic: Strong, Believe, Should, Consumer Confidence

Americans reading the paper, listening to the news every single day, and all you hear is things are getting worse and worse. And that has a psychological effect on consumer confidence. That's what consumer confidence is.

- Howard Schultz

topic: Reading, Listening, News, Consumer Confidence

Even in the face of continued good news, Kerry clings to his message of gloom and doom, supporting it with twisted statistics. Kerry's complaints about a middle class squeeze are out of touch with the reality that home sales hit a record high last month, college tuition increases slowed and consumer confidence is rising.

- Steve Schmidt

topic: Home, Reality, College, College Tuition, Consumer Confidence

Meaningful rules in the consumer credit market can accelerate economic recovery. Rules would increase consumer confidence and, more importantly, weed out all the tricks and traps that sap families of billions of dollars annually.

- Elizabeth Warren

topic: Meaningful, Weed, Recovery, Economic Recovery, Consumer Confidence

When you have a lot of construction going on, it sends a message of vitality that builds up consumer confidence. It gets people to spend money when they see that energy, that things are happening.

- Mick Cornett

topic: People, Energy, Vitality, Consumer Confidence

The crisis in Europe has affected the U.S. economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence, and pressuring U.S. financial markets and institutions.

- Ben Bernanke

topic: Europe, Acting, Financial, Consumer Confidence

Europe is a strong market for the U.S. If it has problems, if there's a lack of consumer confidence, if there's a deeper recession, this will deeply affect jobs in the U.S.

- George Papandreou

topic: Strong, Jobs, Europe, Consumer Confidence

The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.

- Mohamed El-Erian

topic: Loss, Rating, Consumers, Consumer Confidence

I am concerned about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don't want to use the economy, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse.

- Howard Schultz

topic: Use, Want, Commodity, Consumer Confidence, Commodity Prices

Legislators need to support privacy to establish consumer confidence.

- Marc Rotenberg

source: "High tech's top 5 special interests" by Stacy Collett, www.cnn.com. July 5, 2001.

topic: Support, Needs, Privacy, Legislators, Consumer Confidence

I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.

- Jack Welch

topic: Inspirational, Mean, Thinking, Consumer Confidence

Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and create new jobs which are critical components of economic growth, particularly within the small business community.

- Howard Coble

topic: Jobs, Community, Growth, Capital Investment, Consumer Confidence

I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.

- Bennie Thompson

topic: Confidence, Believe, America, Consumer Confidence, Corporate America