Retail Quotes - Page 4

would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate.

Jack Smith

Play, Would Be, Ownership

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An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail.

Thomas Brooks

Men, Wicked, Sin

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"Value added" is a meaningless concept for a retail business , for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing.

Peter Drucker

Insurance Companies, Company, Concepts

"Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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Christmas was on a Sunday in 2005, which had a greater than expected negative impact on retail and classified advertising during the last weekend of our fiscal year. In addition, our California papers had held up well in automotive advertising, but the industry-wide decline in this category reached them in the fourth quarter as well.

Gary Pruitt

Sunday, Weekend, California

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When you have hotels and businesses and retail space across the entire world, it takes time to unpack that and to put this in a place that makes sense for him and the family.

Reince Priebus

Space, World, Hotel

Source: abcnews.go.com

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In today's retail environment, competition comes from every conceivable retail format. To succeed, we have to operate more efficiently and compete more effectively against players at all levels of the retail demographic. There is no question that this is a bold and exciting move, and one I believe will have a positive impact on competitive retailing for American consumers in the longer term.

Bill Vaughan

Moving, Believe, Player

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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In many places, the zoning prohibits the mixing of retail and residential. This stupidity has been accompanied by stupidities in municipal policy, such as disallowing accessory apartments - under the theory that renters are incapable of behaving decently.

James Howard Kunstler

Stupidity, Mixing, Accessories

Source: www.raisethehammer.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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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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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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That's a lot more legitimate than the retail therapy I do.

Alden Ehrenreich

Therapy

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows, but there must be limits to growth. But if publishing is expanding to fill that retail space, it seems like there may be a necessary and unpleasant correction waiting down the road. How many books to people WANT?

William Gibson

Book, Space, People

Source: craphound.com

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Don't expect to make a living on it. Be able to hammer a nail or do retail, doing your music on the side!

Jake Holmes

Nails, Hammers, Able

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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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