Chicken John famous quotes

High-end boutiques aren't putting small staple stores out of business. What's putting small staple stores out of business is formula retail.
-- Chicken John

#Retail #Ends #Stores

I do not agree that NIMBYism is wrong morally. I believe that NIMBYism is wrong ethically. It's a personal choice.
-- Chicken John

#Believe #Choices #Agree

I respect your right to worship Satan, or to worship a tea kettle, or to be a NIMBY, or to be an asshole. There's no law against being an asshole.
-- Chicken John

#Law #Tea #Worship

I think that chain stores in general are really super depressing and I think it really sucks the life out of a city such as San Francisco.
-- Chicken John

#Depressing #Thinking #Cities

If San Francisco is indeed a city of leaders, then I think we should lead, and if we don't want a chain store, then we should say so loudly.
-- Chicken John

#Thinking #Cities #San Francisco

You eat the burger but you don't want the slaughterhouse next door to where you live.
-- Chicken John

#Doors #Burgers #Where You Live

We all have to pick our battles. You've got to draw a line in the sand and stand firm. And it's this squishiness that's really the enemy, like, "Well, I don't know, it's kind of OK but I kind of feel guilty, and I kind of want a bran muffin, I don't know, and I'm wearing a vest; it's crocheted." Shut up. Just pick your battle and just stand there, and whatever you are going to do, own it.
-- Chicken John

#Enemy #Battle #Muffins

No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.

The future of retail is the integration of Internet and digital services with the retail network.

Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.

Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.

Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them.

I can get any retail buyer on the phone with you and get them to verify that not a single retail location in America where there's a PlayStation 3 on the shelf for sale. They've all been sold in a matter of minutes.

When diplomacy ends, War begins.

He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end.

Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.

I like Bloomingdales, and I like a store called Scoop.