Richard Roundtree Quotes

Those wishing to be successful in the market can't ignore the boomer numbers, the wealth and spending power they have.

We need to be much more robust consumers.

We women make the lion's share of household purchases in this country. We ourselves drive billions of dollars a year in sales.

I think the big force is going to be consumer buying power.

Whether it's buying products or researching what you're buying, or just becoming aware of what you're buying, you're saying so much with the money that you're spending.

Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending . . . when women do better, economies do better.

I'd never really thought about it before, but now you ask I can see that how my parents handled money definitely affected my relationship with it.

All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live.

What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?

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.

Wal-Mart's size and scale is so vast they literally have the ability to change the face of the entire country. If Wal-Mart were to make a decision tomorrow to refuse to sell a single product made with partially hydrogenated oils, for example, we'd probably see rates from heart disease decline a few years later. That's how powerful Wal-Mart is.

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance.

How many people out there really set a budget?

The most impactful way consumers can assert their power is to become mindful shoppers, giving their dollars only to socially responsible companies. In today's world of social media and smart phones, this is easy to do.

Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.

More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.

I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation.

Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.

Show your kids that needs and wants are two different things. The best way to teach our kids to be smart consumers - and savvy savers - is to model good behavior for them.

The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.

I can think of a number of things more interesting to read about than tax law, but few things affect our lives more.

Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility.

Every dime spent is a political decision made.