75 Merchandising Quotes
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Famous Merchandising Quotes
Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can be cultivated. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers. — Plautus
Brands and branding are the most significant gifts that commerce has ever made to popular culture. — Wally Olins
Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade. — Marlene Dietrich
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. — Will Rogers
Marketing is the set of human activities directed at facilitating and consummating exchanges. — Philip Kotler
Customers will occasionally buy products not because they want them but because of how they are presented to them. — James Clear
Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink. — Leo Burnett
Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today. — Victor Papanek
The packaging has to really sell the product today, because kids can go out and buy a CD and then 10 kids can burn them. So you have to really be on your toes. — Jerry Only
Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas. — Chip Kidd
Today's smart marketers don't sell products; they sell benefit packages. They don't sell purchase value only; they sell use value. — Philip Kotler
I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label. — Helen Reddy
Sellout... I'm not crazy about the word. We're all entrepreneurs. To me, I don't care if you own a furniture store or whatever - the best sign you can put up is SOLD OUT. — Bill Withers
You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds. — Dorothy Draper
Short Merchandising Quotes
- DELEGATION, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets. — Ambrose Bierce
- I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend! — John Candy
- Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise. — Oscar Wilde
- The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise. — Robert Aris Willmott
- There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.' — Raymond Loewy
- Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made. — Mel Brooks
- The only good hero is the kind who survives to talk about merchandising. — Simon R. Green
- An actor is only merchandise. — Chow YunFat
- The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise. — Josh Billings
Good Merchandising Quotes
It doesn't do much good to have a quality image, whether it's with the facility or whether it's with the merchandise, if you don't have real quality people taking care of your customers. — James Sinegal
By doing good with his money, a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of heaven. — John Rutledge
Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things. — Henry Ward Beecher
My whole success is I've always been designing for people, first because I wanted to sell them merchandise. Then when I got into hotels, I had to rethink, what am I selling now? You're selling a good time. — Morris Lapidus
Advertising moves people toward goods; merchandising moves goods toward people. — Morris Hite
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More Merchandising Quotes
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
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies, and all the things that can be compared unto her. — Solomon
I'm going to take over on the Techno Comics so I'm going to be dealing in the children's merchandising type department. But that's just setting it up and having somebody run it. — Majel Barrett
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
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
The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases. — Charles Edwards
The sale of human organs is merchandise. My first property is my body. Why am I not going to be able to dispose of my body? There are 7,500 persons suffering as they await transplants so something isn’t working right. We are seeking market mechanisms to solve this problem. — Javier Milei
Law is not a trade, not briefs, not merchandise, and so the heaven of commercial competition should not vulgarize the legal profession. — V. R. Krishna Iyer
Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down. — Warren Buffett
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 Stevenson
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
I'm the one person who wears the words 'hustle, loyalty, respect' on my T-shirts and merchandise. My audience is children. It's very flattering to see a kid wear your T-shirt; it's even more flattering to have a dad come up to you and say, 'I watch you with my kid. Keep doing what you're doing. You're a role model for my son.' — John Cena
My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll. — Billy Corgan
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
The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is mere merchandise — Isadora Duncan
The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client. — William S. Burroughs
Gold and silver are but merchandise, as well as cloth or linen; and that nation that buys the least, and sells the most, must always have the most money. — Lord Chesterfield
If you have a business website; make it stickier; redo the merchandising often and try new things until you hit the right homepage...then try and beat that. The most important audience drivers on the internet are paid search and key word optimization. Concentrate on those. They are very inexpensive compared to banner advertising. — Lynda Resnick
Now, more than any time previous in human history, we must arm ourselves with an ethical code so that each of us will be aware that he is protecting the moral merchandise absent of which life is not worth living. — Sholem Asch
As soon as you go into merchandising, everyone nods sagely and says, 'Ah, now we know why you are doing it. — Dave Sim
I was a drug dealer in Ibiza at 15. I did not excel in drug dealing - I was terrible at it. Golden rule with drug dealing - don't get too enthusiastic with your own merchandise. — Lily Allen
I guess like most people I'm a bargain-hunter. I love a bargain. I found out there's two prices on everything. There's the Rodeo Drive price and there's the same merchandise down the street. — Liberace
Looks do count. Deliver visually stunning merchandising. Engage at the point of sale. Help consumers shop with their eyes. — Michael J. Silverstein
wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise. — William Shakespeare
In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait. — Les Brown
Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may. — Sally Stanford
Nirvana's success drew attention to a marketing demographic previously ignored by the mainstream, and inadvertently started a gold rush with advertising executives, product manufacturers, merchandise distributors, fashion coordinators, and rock imitators, the latter of whom have yet to equal the sincerity, power, and wit of Nirvana. — Kim Thayil
The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman. — James Cash Penney
Be a gold-medal multitasker. You should be able to discuss the new Ludacris video while correcting the merchandising spreadsheets, picking the right shade of snakeskin for next season's mini-purses and catching the dog at the same time! — Kimora Lee Simmons
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
The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each step carries its shopper aloft, as though afraid he might change his mind. It takes us up to merchandise we might not have bothered to climb an ordinary flight of steps for. — Joseph Roth
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
Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings - and they will always come back. — Leon Leonwood Bean
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