Stores Quotes - Page 16

• You walk into a retail store, whatever it is, and if there's a sense of entertainment and excitement and electricity, you wanna be there.

  Howard Schultz

  Retail, Entertainment, Excitement

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• I think people will walk into the Starbucks store and overnight recognize the significant difference between what Starbucks represents day-in and day-out and all the other coffee companies that have been serving coffee in India for so many years.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Thinking, Years

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• If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed.

  Howard Schultz

  Growth, Vancouver, May

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• If you look at coffee, tea, food and juice, we think there are inherent opportunities. If you look at health bars or grab-and-go products that are in our stores, we think we can significantly enhance them and make them more widely available.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Starbucks at 40: Java juggernaut branches out". Interview with Bruce Horovitz, www.usatoday.com. March 10, 2011.

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• Post-9/11, we saw an immediate uptick in the amount of people in our stores, all over the country. People wanted that human connection. We are not going to fracture the Starbucks experience.

  Howard Schultz

  Country, People, Connections

  "Coffee talk: Katie Couric interviews Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz tonight". Interview with Katie Couric, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 8, 2008.

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• Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program.

  Howard Schultz

  Cities, Kansas City, America

  "Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz discusses turnaround". Interview with Melissa Allison, www.seattletimes.com. March 12, 2011.

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• I live right next to a grocery store and I don't know if it's the bachelor in me, but I just go in and shop for what I need for the day. I'm an idiot because I don't shop for the whole week. The check out clerks always crack jokes about the fact that I'm in there sometimes twice a day.

  Sean William Scott

  Clerks, Cracks, Needs

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• People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.

  Amy Sedaris

  People, Healthy, Looks

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• Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.

  Dr. Seuss

  Christmas, Merry Christmas, Christmas Wishes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Go to a wig store with your girlfriends, never by yourself. You need someone to say, 'Girl that looks good!' You need someone to encourage you to try pieces on. Try to purchase a wig close to your natural hair color as possible, don't come in with brown hair and try to leave as a redhead unless you are fine with that!

  Sherri Shepherd

  Girl, Hair, Color

  "Behind the Brush: Wiggin’ Out with Sherri Shepherd". "Ebony" Interview, www.ebony.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Very few people know this, but I love organizational products and tools. One of my favorite places to shop are container stores where you can get bins, boxes and crates to organize your life.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  People, Favorite Places, Tools

  "Kimora Lee Simmons Dishes About Online Shopping, Her Favorite Things to Buy, and Hypothetical Hoarding" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. April 9, 2012.

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• I am not a person who tries on in the stores. It drives me crazy. So I buy and take back if I don't like something. I really don't enjoy being in the dressing room. I rather just try it on in my house.

  Jessica Simpson

  Crazy, House, Trying

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• Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.

  James Sinegal

  Salary, Messages, Factories

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• Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental.

  Simon Sinek

  Coffee, Space, Tables

  "Blinded By Their Own Product: Starbucks Is Losing Its Buzz" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2010.

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• I collect stuffed animals, and toy stores make me happy.

  Grace Slick

  Animal, Toys, Make Me Happy

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• I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Attention, Records, Album Covers

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• To go from being an unpopular, chubby little kid who was chasing girls and couldn't seem to catch them, to being chased after and making sure I ran slow enough that I did get caught, it was 180 degree turn. It was being given the keys to the candy store.

  Paul Stanley

  Girl, Kids, Keys

  "KISS founders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley: Peter Criss and Ace Frehley got what they deserved". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. September 17, 2013.

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• I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Memories, Thinking, Brain

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• There are times, like after a long day of work, when the thought of an easy drive-through is enticing. But then I remember how crappy I felt when I ate fast food in the past, and it inspires me to head to the grocery store or my local farmer's market and whip up an easy but healthier option.

  Alison Sweeney

  Past, Long, Inspire

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• I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

  Shirley Temple

  Funny, Christmas, Mother

  Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1984)

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• The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Mvp, Years, Lasts

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Sight, Important

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2009). “Democracy in America: Volumes I & II”, p.1164, The Floating Press

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• I love to shop, especially in retro stores. I have about a million pairs of old-school sports shoes like Adidas, so that's probably my biggest vice.

  Carrot Top

  Sports, School, Shoes

  "Comic's haven is Orlando, but Cabo was heavenly". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. September 13, 2011.

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• I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.

  Ted Turner

  Years, Five, Havens

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• The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Inspiration, Practice

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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