Retail Quotes - Page 6

• I wanted to create a new way of looking at retail.

  Tory Burch

  Way, Wanted, New Ways

  "INSTANT MBA: Design Your Company Around Your Needs" by Mariana Simoes, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2013.

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• I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street

  Sam Walton

  Reading, Learning, Hands

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.29, Bantam

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• The ventures that keep things light and fun, easy to understand, that have a compelling story, a sexy retail product, will have an easier time getting people to rally around them and contribute. A start-up doing something that's difficult to communicate or doesn't offer any kind of retail product will have a tougher go at it.

  Jessica Jackley

  Sexy, Fun, Light

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• Not too far away from now - in the next 6-7 years - 75 million Americans will be retail buyers of healthcare. And they'll come to the marketplace with their own money and either a subsidy from their employer or a subsidy from their government. And it doesn't much matter - they'll be spending their money.

  Mark T Bertolini

  Government, Years, Subsidies

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• The Customer isn't always right. Sometimes the customer is an a**hole. That's the first rule of retail.

  Kelly Link

  Firsts, Sometimes, Holes

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• Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.

  Vince Cable

  Loss, Gambling, Years

  "The Storm ... how to survive it (and how to prevent its return)" by Vince Cable, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2009.

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• 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

  Home, Reconstruction, Protect

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• A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a book taken from the shelf and held in the hand is a magical experience, linking writer to reader.

  Jason Epstein

  Book, Taken, Hands

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• My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.

  Rachel Roy

  Jobs, Age, Firsts

  "Interview: Entrepreneur & Designer Rachel Roy". Interview with Felicia C. Sullivan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2009.

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

  Charles Dunstone

  Business, Technology, Digital

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• When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ocean, Loss, Technology

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.44, CUP Archive

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• 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

  Technology, Important, Three

  "Speaking Out: Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos". The BusinessWeek Interview, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

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• 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

  Xbox, Games, Today

  "Xbox One and Used Games". majornelson.com. May 21, 2013.

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• 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

  Ideas, Design, Culture

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• I don't think goal setting is an important basis for a retail business - or for anyone. Most of the time goal setting puts too much energy and attention on being someplace else, instead of helping you appreciate where you are.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." I would not be telling myself constantly that I have to double my sales in order for me to be happy. I would tell myself, "I am content to be here in this moment, and I love this work."

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, Order, Goal

  "Wayne Dyer on God and goodness, inspiration and presence". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. September 5, 2015.

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• Communities must plan for a variety of uses and income levels. Why do we care about housing as high-tech employers? If teachers, firefighters, peace officers, retail or restau- rant workers can't live here, then we're going to fail.

  Carl Guardino

  Teacher, Nature, Smart

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• Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.

  Will Durant

  Wisdom, War, Light

  Will Durant (1961). “Story of Philosophy”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Mr. Speaker, 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. Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism.... 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, my colleagues. I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of our current system.

  James Traficant

  Thinking, America, Yield

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• I have fantasy jobs like working in retail at a department store just selling rich housewives outfits and saying 'this looks fabulous on you! Let me find a matching handbag!' Then, the other is being like some sort of Vice or taskforce, law enforcement, undercover [person]. Or possibly someday becoming a guerilla activist - I'm kind of in-training for that now anyways. So, maybe my retirement will be jumping on ships, kidnapping, and [participating in] espionage. I still fantasize.

  Mike Ness

  Retirement, Jobs, Jumping

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• I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!

  Chris Colfer

  Cute, Nice, Car

  "*Glee'*s Chris Colfer Wants to Show You His Ass". Interview with Brett Berk, www.vanityfair.com. April 27, 2010.

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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

  Internet, Newspapers, Stores

  Twitter post from Oct 09, 2014

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• Black Friday, in reality, is a symptom of the plight that 30 years of Reaganomics has brought to working people in America. Right along with the frenzied rise of shoppers willing to fight each other at retail outlets across America, we've been steadily, for the last 30 years, watching the destruction of organized labor ... of decent pay and wages and conditions for working people. ... We have Black Friday today because the wealthy elite have strangled their workers for 32 years, ever since Ronald Reagan's election.

  Thom Hartmann

  Friday, Fighting, Reality

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• We are seeing pioneers moving out to the Internet, banks that are taking transactions, retail shopping on the Internet, and although it's going to take most of a decade before most adults are turning to the Internet for a high percentage of their act

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Shopping, Adults

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• 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

  Business, Work, Guidelines

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• I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Technology, Gaps, Way

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