Retail famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.
-- Aaron Levie -
We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it's never more advantageous to buy there.
-- Andrea Jung -
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.
-- Andrea Jung -
a great deal of the wealth at the top is built on the low-wage labor of the poor. Take Wal-Mart, our largest private employer and premiere exploiter of the working class. ... You think it's a coincidence that this union-busting low-wage retail empire happens to have generated a $65 billion family fortune?
-- Barbara Ehrenreich -
You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.
-- Brock Chisholm -
The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.
-- Camille Paglia -
The future of retail is the integration of Internet and digital services with the retail network.
-- Charles Dunstone -
The retail industry has its own headache: it loses $16 billion a year to customers who buy clothes, wear them with the tags tucked in, and return these secondhand clothes for a full refund.
-- Dan Ariely -
Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.
-- Daniel Libeskind -
Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.
-- David Lloyd George -
McDonald's has been extraordinary at site selection; it was a pioneer in studying the best places for retail locations. One of the things it did is study very carefully where sprawl was headed.
-- Eric Schlosser -
Retail should never ever tell the copyright owner how their stuff is sold.
-- Garth Brooks -
Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them.
-- Gerry Harvey -
Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market.
-- Gray Davis -
You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue.
-- Greg Graffin -
For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.
-- Howard Nemerov -
The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.
-- J. Paul Getty -
would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate.
-- Jack Smith -
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.
-- Jack Tretton -
I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.
-- James Dyson -
The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology.
-- Jeff Bezos -
With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.
-- Jo Ann Emerson -
Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines for ripping off retail investors.
-- Joel Spolsky -
The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.
-- John F. Kennedy -
Immersing yourself in the environment of a real record store where music is celebrated and cherished adds real value to the experience of buying music. In some ways, that retail experience is as important as the music.
-- John Mellencamp -
Were the only major company in the U.S. that is solely in the professional beauty industry. We promised hairdressers when we started that we would stay with them. If I went retail tomorrow then we would be four times our size overnight, but Im going to be the one guy who kept his word.
-- John Paul DeJoria -
The Customer isn't always right. Sometimes the customer is an a**hole. That's the first rule of retail.
-- Kelly Link -
I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well.
-- Kenneth Lay -
While there have been many potential scenarios discussed, today we have only confirmed that we designed Xbox One to enable our customers to trade in and resell games at retail.
-- Larry Hryb -
The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.
-- Lindsey Graham -
The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains.
-- Mark Skousen -
The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true that when the rich are convinced they're going to be taxed more, they spend less. And when the top few percenters don't spend, there goes all your spending, because they account for half of all retail spending.
-- Neil Cavuto -
Charging everyone the same thing and treating everyone the same way, as retailers do today, is 'Six Sigma' thinking which is great for producing widgets on a production line, but it makes no sense in a world where customers are inherently different.
-- Peter Fader -
We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness
-- Peter Thiel -
I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.
-- Philip Green -
I'd never worked in fashion or retail. I just needed an undergarment that didn't exist.
-- Sara Blakely -
In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.
-- Tate Taylor -
An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail.
-- Thomas Brooks -
Retail is selling things that don't come back to customers who do.
-- Tony Farmer -
I wanted to create a new way of looking at retail.
-- Tory Burch -
If I ran a retail store, which I have done in my life, I would go into it from a place of "I am thrilled to be here, and I am honored to be able to serve other people."
-- Wayne Dyer -
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 -
There is a complete disconnect really or should be a disconnect between the retail price of the milk and what's actually going on in the marketplace, and what influences the farm gate price is the export market.
-- Ian McLeod -
Don't expect to make a living on it. Be able to hammer a nail or do retail, doing your music on the side!
-- Jake Holmes -
In 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. ... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS.
-- James Traficant -
Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that produces no product
-- John Warren Kindt -
Having some retail experience is key. It really is where the battle is won or lost.
-- Joseph Abboud -
We pick on retail, I think, because each individual has experience with retail. It is easy to talk about.
-- Ken Moelis -
Curiosity is the greatest source of ideas, retail revolutions, and insights.
-- Michael J. Silverstein -
By selling directly to customers, real women, the brand is able to avoid significant retail mark-ups that typically exist in high end fashion.
-- Sarah Lafleur -
An extremely competitive retail market is pushing extensive discounting and large volumes of wine at low prices, and New World competitors from South America and South Africa are also impacting on the market.
-- Trevor O'Hoy -
That's a lot more legitimate than the retail therapy I do.
-- Alden Ehrenreich -
Visit your local supermarket or retail chain. You'll experience a lot of visual stimulus, but it's unlikely that your other senses will encounter any compelling messages.
-- Martin Lindstrom -
I wouldn't call it a retail store. It's a place where culture and commerce intersect. It's more like the Silk Road-a sense of exploration mixed with the exchange of things and ideas.
-- Ron Pompei
