Merchandise Quotes

• Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

  Plautus

  Character, Decision, Buyers

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I make money from touring and selling merchandise, and I honestly believe if you put effort into something and you execute properly, you don't necessarily have to go through the traditional ways.

  Chance the Rapper

  Believe, Effort, Way

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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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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• 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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• 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 ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Mind, Red Leaves

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Hate, Long, Hatred

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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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• Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.

  Josh Billings

  Religion, Morality, Trade

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing Money, Talking, Quality

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, 2008.

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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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• In terms of merchandise, you can't force anyone to buy something.

  Paul Stanley

  Force, Term

  "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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• 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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• We want to keep extending our brand into different places, into movies and soundtracks and our music will live on through licensing and our brand lives on through merchandise and new generations will get to wear our clothing and our T-shirts and stuff that's associated with us.

  Nikki Sixx

  Different, Generations, Want

  Source: forbassplayersonly.com

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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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• 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 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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• 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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