Merchandising Quotes

• I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!

  John Candy

  Dog, Men, Half

  "Fictional character: Barf". "Spaceballs", www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• Looks do count. Deliver visually stunning merchandising. Engage at the point of sale. Help consumers shop with their eyes.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Eye, Looks, Helping

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• As soon as you go into merchandising, everyone nods sagely and says, 'Ah, now we know why you are doing it.

  Dave Sim

  Knows

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• Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

  Christopher Lasch

  Heart, Upgrading, Taste

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.520, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.

  Russell Lynes

  Art, Book, Car

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• The only good hero is the kind who survives to talk about merchandising.

  Simon R. Green

  Hero, Kind, Good Hero

  Simon R. Green (2011). “Ghostworld”, p.102, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.

  Mel Brooks

  Money, Real, Yogurt

  "Spaceballs". www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• If you have a business website; make it stickier; redo the merchandising often and try new things until you hit the right homepage...then try and beat that. The most important audience drivers on the internet are paid search and key word optimization. Concentrate on those. They are very inexpensive compared to banner advertising.

  Lynda Resnick

  Keys, Important, Trying

  "How Your Business Can Survive the Economic Collapse" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2008.

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• It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.

  A. J. Liebling

  Knowledge, Survival, Anomalies

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• I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.

  Andy Grove

  Thinking, Technology, Knowing

  "Andy Grove's Rational Exuberance". Interview with John Heilemann, www.wired.com. June 1, 2001.

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• We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel.

  J. G. Ballard

  Technology, Fiction, World

  "Crash". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1973.

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• I always wanted to be a fashion designer and I learned costume illustration in high school. That was an incredible high school. It was more like a college. I'm moving more in that direction, just kind of merchandising my name.

  Diana Ross

  Fashion, Moving, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What --- you don't believe in true love?" Petra asked. "The kind that can then be parlayed into awesome merchandising opportunities?" - "Beauty Queens

  Libba Bray

  Queens, Believe, Opportunity

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.266, Scholastic Inc.

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• I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.

  Helen Reddy

  Exercise, Labels, Levels

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• Be a gold-medal multitasker. You should be able to discuss the new Ludacris video while correcting the merchandising spreadsheets, picking the right shade of snakeskin for next season's mini-purses and catching the dog at the same time!

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Dog, Gold, Shade

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• Santa Claus is a god. He's no less a god than Ahura Mazda, or Odin, or Zeus. Think of the white beard, the chariot pulled through the air by a breed of animal which doesn't ordinarily fly, the prayers (requests for gifts) which are annually mailed to him and which so baffle the Post Office, the specially-garbed priests in all the department stories. And don't gods reflect their creators' society? The Greeks had a huntress goddess, and gods of agriculture and war and love. What else would we have but a god of giving, of merchandising, and of consumption?

  Donald E. Westlake

  Prayer, War, Animal

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• A lot of people can figure out the social media aspect of it, or the merchandising aspect, or whatever and get enough momentum to start a career. To sustain it, you have to keep writing and you have to keep creating.

  Tyler Hilton

  Writing, Media, Careers

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a heightened interest in, and an awareness of the built environment, the 'store' has become a critical, perceptual and psychological component of merchandising as well as imaging. Architecture and fashion are partners.

  Charles Gwathmey

  Fashion, Color, Discipline

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• The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.

  E. B. White

  Media, Roles, News

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• Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Grandchildren, Courses

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.71, Dial Press

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• Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect.

  Grant Morrison

  Book, Character, Lasts

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• Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren, so that the message of our principal art forms, movies and television and political speeches and newspaper columns, for the sake of the economy, simply has to be this: War is hell, all right, but the only way a boy can become a man is in a shoot-out of some kind, preferably, but by no means necessarily, on a battlefield.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, War, Mean

  Kurt Vonnegut (1987). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, New York : Delacorte Press

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• I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.

  Dakota Fanning

  Mom, Fashion, College

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• I'm going to take over on the Techno Comics so I'm going to be dealing in the children's merchandising type department. But that's just setting it up and having somebody run it.

  Majel Barrett

  Running, Children, Type

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• I wasn't so interested in merchandising through CD or whatever form. I wasn't really so aggressive about promoting my own work. I had my recordings from the past, but I never thought someone was interested in releasing it.

  Yoshi Wada

  Past, Cds, Form

  Source: pitchfork.com

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