Retailing Quotes

• Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.

  Enid Nemy

  Christmas, Office, Essentials

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• In retailing, the formula happens to be a basic liking for human beings, plus integrity, plus industry, plus the ability to see the other fellow's point of view.

  James Cash Penney

  Integrity, Views, Plus

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• Social media can work to a CEO's advantage. Someone with a great product in a small town in the middle of nowhere can compete in the world marketplace. In 1962, Sam Walton changed the face of retailing with Wal-Mart. As we speak, Amazon is again changing the face of retail with on-line buying.

  Bill Capodagli

  Media, World, Middle Of Nowhere

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• The general culture of investment banking has deteriorated over the years. We did a $6 million deal years ago for Diversified Retailing and we were rigorously and intelligently screened. They bankers cared and wanted to protect their clients. The culture now is that anything that can be sold for a profit will be. 'Can you sell it?' is the moral test, and that's not an adequate test.

  Charlie Munger

  Years, Bankers, Culture

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• Retailing is a unique destination. What you need is stronger critical mass.

  John Simon

  Unique, Stronger, Needs

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• I not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.

  Sam Walton

  Wanted

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.26, Bantam

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• Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.

  Erik Brynjolfsson

  Gone, Information, Environment

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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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• People are fretful about lifestyle retailing because the idea that anyone's immortal soul and deepest longings can be quite so readily anticipated and consolidated with several hundred thousand other like-minded types is worrying.

  Peter York

  Ideas, Worry, People

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• Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.

  George Santayana

  Long, Poetry, Ancient

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four”, p.58, MIT Press

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• That books, a commodity little changed since Caxton's day, should have turned out to be the trailblazers of retailing on the internet is one of the stranger cultural ironies of our time. If you've bought one thing on the net, the newest and most prodigiously high-tech communications system imaginable, then it is almost certain to be a book, the oldest and simplest.

  Bryan Appleyard

  Book, Communication, Should Have

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• The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want. And really, if you think about it from the point of view of the customer, you want everything: a wide assortment of good quality merchandise; the lowest possible prices; guaranteed satisfaction with what you buy; friendly, knowledgeable service; convenient hours; free parking; a pleasant shopping experience.

  Sam Walton

  Successful, Thinking, Views

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• The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want

  Sam Walton

  Successful, Giving, Secret

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.221, Bantam

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• My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Giving Up, Love You, Firsts

  Thomas Goodwin (1861). “The Works of Thomas Goodwin”, p.167

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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, Retail

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• One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and pound his fist: 'It's all about the customers!' And he was right. He was also right that, at that time, retailing was devoid of really talented people; he urged me to go in that direction.

  Thomas G. Stemberg

  Educational, School, People

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