Retail Quotes - Page 4

• Retail is selling things that don't come back to customers who do.

  Tony Farmer

  Business, Selling Things, Customers

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• I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

  Garth Brooks

  Trying, Combat, Copyright

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• I'd never worked in fashion or retail. I just needed an undergarment that didn't exist.

  Sara Blakely

  Fashion, Needed, Undergarments

  "Spanx creator Sara Blakely becomes youngest woman on Forbes Billionaires List". www.foxnews.com. March 08, 2012.

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• Hey!" I exclaimed, seeing the total. "They're charging me retail. Glenn!" I complained. "They can't do that." I shook it at him. "I shouldn't have to pay retail!" "What did you expect? You can keep that. It's your copy." I sat back in a huff and shoved it in my bag with my sticky scarf as he typed his slow, painful way through my report. "Where's this human compassion I keep hearing about?" "That's it, baby doll," he said, voice smoother than usual. He was laughing at me.

  Kim Harrison

  Baby, Compassion, Voice

  Kim Harrison (2013). “Black Magic Sanction”, p.35, HarperCollins UK

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• 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

  Girl, Cds, Spices

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• His face held a certain impassivity; you see it in all waiters and valets. They might want to jam a knife through your left eye socket, but you'd never know it from their expression. Working retail, I've acquired a similar look myself.

  Ann Aguirre

  Eye, Expression, Knives

  Ann Aguirre (2009). “Blue Diablo: A Corine Solomon Novel”, p.29, Penguin

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• 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

  Business, Confused, Buying Things

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• Retailers are treating everyone the same way who walks in their stores and this doesn't make sense in the world we live in where all customers are not equal.

  Peter Fader

  Smart, World, Way

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• 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

  Smart, Thinking, Different

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• 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

  Blood, Marketing, My Family

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• Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student

  Patricia Heaton

  Home, Kids, College

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• Why don't I talk about Big Data? Because I am focused on intelligent answers and not speeds and feeds. It doesn't matter if it is quick if it's the wrong answer.

  Michael J. Saylor

  Smart, Intelligent, Data

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• 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

  Class, Literature, Serious

  Howard Nemerov (1981). “Journal of the Fictive Life”, p.20, University of Chicago Press

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• As luck would have (it was) in God's hands. It was me...The billionaire (part) was a stretch but I thought the almighty dollar was the way to be happy...and I woke up one morning and I had three retail establishments and a full-blown construction company with partners making great money and I was miserable.

  Drew Waters

  Morning, Hands, Luck

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• If I dont get enough sleep, my brain gets fatigued, and the voice suffers. If Im doing some retail work and trying to read and record legal copy, I start sounding like I had a few too many the night before.

  Roger Craig Smith

  Sleep, Night, Voice

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• By nature, an auction is kind of a wholesale beast anyway. You're buying second hand goods, even with the historical, antique or aesthetic value. You look to get the wholesale price and you hope for retail spikes periodically when you get two or three people in the audience that want the same thing.

  Paul Brown

  Hands, Two, People

  Source: www.missbargainhuntress.com

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• 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

  Ends, Stores, Staples

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In certain cases I don't want to sell tracks individually; I want to only sell the whole album. With simple things like that I just don't get any response [from iTunes]. I don't want to kill iTunes - I just want to offer my own retail experience in my own tiny corner of the Internet.

  DJ Shadow

  Simple, Track, Albums

  "DJ Shadow’s Killer App". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

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• In the retail business, many people are too consumed with the bottom line. How much am I going to be selling? Am I going to be able to do all the things I need to get done? Instead, if they are at peace and feeling good about themselves - if they are treating customers with love and acting as statesmen and stateswomen and people who are connected to God in a spiritual sense - then every day for them is a real joy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Real, People

  New Age Retailer Interview, www.drwaynedyer.com. November 2005.

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• No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to wear any device but the skull and crossbones of that kindred industry which differs from royalty only businesswise-merely as retail differs from wholesale.

  Mark Twain

  Skulls, Flying, Thrones

  Mark Twain (2014). “The American Claimant”, p.58, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If you were to sell your character, would you get full retail or would it go for a bargain-basement price?

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Character, Basements, Bargains

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• We have to do commerce differently because the WalMart system of big box chain retail will soon die. This means rebuilding local main street economies (networks of local economic interdependency).

  James Howard Kunstler

  Mean, Rebuilding, Walmart

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• When I come to a new city is I combine: I say, well, it's like Barcelona and Edinburgh, though I can't imagine what that would be. But Toronto, the last few times I've been here, what always comes up is Chicago and West Berlin. It's a big, sprawling city beside a lake, of a certain age and a certain architectural complexity. But the high-end retail core looks more like West Germany than the Magnificent Mile. Yonge Street is like K-Damm. There's an excess of surface marble and bronze: it's Germanic and as pretentious as pretentious can be.

  William Gibson

  Lakes, West Germany, Cities

  Source: craphound.com

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• That's a lot more legitimate than the retail therapy I do.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Therapy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've been through the whole western world, and it seems to me that there's more retail floor space devoted to the sale of books than food! There's more retail floor space devoted to the sale of books than there's been in the entire history of humanity! It's grotesque!

  William Gibson

  Book, Space, Humanity

  Source: craphound.com

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