Merchandise Quotes

• Love is the merchandise which all the world demands; if you store it in your heart, every soul will become your customer.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Heart, Love Is, Soul

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “Bowl of Saki”, p.20, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

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• People buy personalities as much as merchandise, and it is a question if they are not influenced more by the personalities with which they come in contact than they are by the merchandise.

  Napoleon Hill

  People, Personality, Contact

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, editor, Napoleon Hill “Law of Success - Law of Attraction”, Lulu.com

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• Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

  Plautus

  Character, Decision, Buyers

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• If artists want to have people come to their shows and buy their merchandise, they really have to make a commitment to those fans and bring the best music, shows and interaction that they can. This is something that won't change with technology or economy.

  Steve Mahoney

  Commitment, Technology, Artist

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• wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise.

  William Shakespeare

  Adventure, Sea, Shore

  William Shakespeare (2007). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.61, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings - and they will always come back.

  Leon Leonwood Bean

  Business, Service Culture, Profit

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• Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.

  William S. Burroughs

  Drug, Junk, Clients

  Naked Lunch (1959)

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• Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn

  James Cash Penney

  Jobs, Economy, Selling

  James Cash Penney (1950). “Fifty Years with the Golden Rule”

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• I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.

  William McKinley

  Country, Money, Inspiration

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• I feel very strongly that clothes that fit well make a person feel better. It's maybe half the value of the merchandise.

  Jil Sander

  Feel Better, Clothes, Half

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• Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.

  William Bernbach

  Weed, Jobs, Shining

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• I often stand by the merchandise booth, point to a poster and tell people, 'That's me.'

  Nate Mendel

  People, Posters

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• You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.

  Rumi

  Soul, Articles, Knows

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• Stores don't order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and builders don't produce unless they have buyers lined up. My business contacts describe this as a paradigm shift and they believe it's permanent.

  Janet Yellen

  Believe, Thinking, Order

  "The Outlook for the Economy and Monetary Policy". Janet Yelle's Speech to the Burnham-Moores Center at the University of San Diego in San Diego, California, www.frbsf.org. February 22, 2010.

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• The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Business, Soul, Curls

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.790, Delphi Classics

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• A good rule of thumb is as follows: If the numbers come from somebody wearing a tie (Wall Street economist or analyst, industry public relations department, captive think tank academic and so on), you ought to be very skeptical. By design messages from these people are intended to move markets, move merchandise and/or move public policy and are not a comment on the state of the physical universe.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Wall, Moving, Thinking

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• Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It's about building a global brand - not selling four more bottles of Pinot Grigio.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Thinking, Video, Bottles

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• The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.

  James Cash Penney

  Economy, Shelves, Salesman

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• I started touring in 2006, and there was an agreement made for merchandise between my mom and myself.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Mom, Agreement, Touring

  "Dweezil Zappa plays... whatever he wants". Interview with Allison Stewart, www.chicagotribune.com. October 6, 2016.

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• The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Thinking, Cereal, Election Process

  Speech at the Democratic National Convention, August 18, 1956.

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• It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Character, Games

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• Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Opposites, People, Pay

  "The joy of simply faffing around" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2008.

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• Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.

  Jessica Lange

  Successful, Years, Editors

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• It is a strange anomaly that men could be careful to insure their houses, their ships, their merchandise, and yet neglect to insure their lives - surely the most important of all to their families, and more subject to loss.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Loss, Men, House

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• Storehouses filled with merchandise will prove a better guarantee than arsenals bulging with ammunition.

  Elisabeth Marbury

  Peace, Guarantees, Filled

  Elisabeth Marbury (1924). “My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences”, New York : Boni and Liveright

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